A beginner's guide to fossil fuel divestment

A comprehensive guide to the basics of divestment: what it means, why the urgency and how it impacts climate change

Divestment is the opposite of investment - it is the removal of your investment capital from stocks, bonds or funds. The global movement for fossil fuel divestment (sometimes also called disinvestment) is asking institutions to move their money out of oil, coal and gas companies for both moral and financial reasons. These institutions include universities, religious institutions, pension funds, local authorities and charitable foundations.