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Campaign demands banks stop financing fossil fuel projects

December 12, 2014 Leave a Comment

Climate change movement 350Afrca.org recently launched its Fossil Free Africa campaign, with a call on ‘dirty banks’ to fully disclose their fossil fuel investments and commit to stop financing future mining, refinery and power station projects in South Africa and across Africa. Activists protested outside the headquarters of Nedbank in Sandton, Johannesburg citing the … [Read more...]

Suffering Africa to divest from fossil fuels

December 2, 2014 Leave a Comment

Renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben and the climate movement 350.org, recent recipients of the Right Livelihood Award, (otherwise known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize),” have sounded the call for a large-scale and global divestment from fossil fuel companies, especially in Africa. Africa is particularly vulnerable to climate change. It has been estimated by Greenpeace … [Read more...]

Activists kick off Fossil Free campaign outside prominent bank

November 28, 2014 Leave a Comment

Activists in Sandton this week kicked off the campaign for a Fossil Free Africa. "This is a fight for our future, and that of our children -- a future where we have clean energy and water to survive, and where our energy supply doesn’t cost the earth," they said. The activists were outside Nedbank’s headquarters to expose the bank’s greenwashing and their role in South … [Read more...]

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