{"id":1168,"date":"2016-12-23T03:46:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/350-hong-kong\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2016-12-23T03:49:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:49:47","slug":"assets-pledged-to-fossil-fuel-divestment-surpass-us-5-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/350-hong-kong\/2016\/12\/23\/1168\/","title":{"rendered":"Assets pledged to fossil fuel divestment surpass US$ 5 TRILLION!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/divestinvest.org\/2016-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">New DivestInvest report<\/a>\u00a0that was just released in December, institutions and individuals committing to divestment from fossil fuel have reached a total asset of US$5.2 trillion. Such commitments doubled over the past 15 months, and over a thousands of signatories have joined the movement. More importantly, divesting institutions are also more diverse than ever &#8211; they range from philanthropic foundations, faith-based organizations, local governments, education institutions and pension funds, with no one sector representing more than a quarter of the total.\u00a0Our campaign ally,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rsgroupasia\/posts\/1396594410380066\" target=\"_blank\">RS Group Asia<\/a>, is also among one of those who have made such commitment. We hope this can lead us to a promising start in 2017, which would foresee the divestment campaign to snowball!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The full report can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/divestinvest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Global-Divestment-Report-2016-Final-12.9.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, while <a href=\"http:\/\/divestinvest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-1pager.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0is a page summary of the statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2016 is drawing to a close, we are happy to hear the encouraging news that the current divestment amount has reached an aggregate of over US$5 trillion worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[35,36],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-divestment","tag-rs-group"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/350-hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/350-hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/350-hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/350-hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/350-hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/350-hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/350-hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/350-hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/350-hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}