Colleges, local governments, investment funds, and religious institutions around the globe. 350.org counts 26 colleges and universities that have committed to divesting in some form from fossil fuel companies, with movements under way at dozens of others. That includes Stanford University, which committed to divest from coal last May.
In Britain, seven noted institutions and individuals, reportedly Prince Charles and publishers of The Guardian among them, are divesting from fossil fuels.
Last September, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a private charitable fund based in New York, said it would work to withdraw its investments in fossil fuels. The announcement was particularly notable given the $860-million fund’s origins: the private wealth of John D. Rockefeller, cofounder of Standard Oil, the world’s first multinational oil company.
