divestment
Noun
Meaning
The act of divesting.
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“After five failed attempts in as many years to pass BDS, student activists enshrouded calls for divestment within a resolution opposing anti-Black violence,” the Illini Hillel at Cohen Center for Jewish Life said Thursday in a statement on Facebook.
A global retreat from thermal coal has accelerated this year, in part due to shareholder activism and divestment campaigns.
As a practical, political matter, the proponents might hope that targeting the resolution that way would prove to be a more practicable course toward divestment within the Harvard context.
Dan Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, blames the internet and the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel as the main culprits.
A-10 divestment could increase the operational tempo of remaining CAS-capable aircraft, which could increase costs related to extending the service lives of those remaining CAS-capable aircraft.
According to campaign group People & Planet, they join around 60 other UK university endowments with "some kind of divestment commitment".