{"id":13426,"date":"2017-04-20T15:26:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T15:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/a-short-history-of-the-fossil-fuel-divestment-campaign-2\/"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:31:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T19:31:48","slug":"a-short-history-of-the-fossil-fuel-divestment-campaign-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/a-short-history-of-the-fossil-fuel-divestment-campaign-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A short history of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the divestment movement now taking root on all 6 continents and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree-org.gofossilfree.org\/\"><b>Global Divestment Mobilisation<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> starting in less than two weeks, we\u2019ve been working on <a href=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree-org.gofossilfree.org\/timeline\/\">an interactive timeline<\/a> looking back at some of the key milestones achieved by the Fossil Free campaign since its launch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s been less than 5 years since the idea of fossil fuel divestment first took hold. It\u2019s now a rapidly-growing global movement that has transformed the narrative around keeping fossil fuels in the ground and persuaded over 700 mainstream institutions and thousands of individuals worth over $5 trillion to publicly break their ties with the fossil fuel industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13418\" src=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/timeline2-612x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"timeline2\" width=\"612\" height=\"300\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree-org.gofossilfree.org\/timeline\/\">Take a look at some of the milestones along the way and how each act of divestment at a local level is undermining the pillars of support than continue to prop up a reckless fossil fuel industry.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been less than 5 years since the idea of fossil fuel divestment first took hold. It\u2019s now a rapidly-growing global movement that has transformed the narrative around keeping fossil fuels in the ground. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":13427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,189,134,245,52,256,260,258],"tags":[237],"class_list":["post-13426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-asia","category-divestment-2","category-divestny","category-europe","category-global-divestment-mobilisation","category-latin-america","category-usa","tag-divestny"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}