{"id":49534,"date":"2017-10-13T07:33:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T07:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/eindhoven-goes-fossil-free\/"},"modified":"2017-11-17T10:42:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T10:42:30","slug":"eindhoven-goes-fossil-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/eindhoven-goes-fossil-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Eindhoven, Netherlands goes Fossil Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The city council of Eindhoven, with broad support from within, has responded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Fossielvrij040\/\">Fossil Free Eindhoven<\/a> Campaign\u2019s demands to divest, and is now fossil free.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2017\/11\/eindhoven-divests-v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8360\" src=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/10\/eindhoven-divests-v2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The city council\u2019s divestment commitment, one of the most comprehensive yet, states that within five years Eindhoven will break their financial ties with the fossil fuel industry. Meaning that the city council will hold <strong>no investments in coal, oil and gas, and no fossil fuel companies will sponsor the city<\/strong> either. The campaign is also calling on all banks cooperating with the municipality to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry, and finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/act.350.org\/sign\/ABPfossielvrij\">call on the ABP pension fund to divest<\/a> from fossil fuels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What an amazing <strong>victory for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Fossielvrij040\/\">Fossil Free Eindhoven<\/a> campaigners,<\/strong> after just half a year of activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Fossielvrij040\/posts\/912713332240048\" data-width=\"600\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Fossielvrij040\/posts\/912713332240048\"><p>EINDHOVEN FOSSIELVRIJ VERKLAARD! Zojuist heeft de gemeenteraad ons burgerinitiatief met z\u00e9\u00e9r brede steun aangenomen! Na&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Fossielvrij040\/\">Eindhoven Fossielvrij<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Fossielvrij040\/posts\/912713332240048\">Tuesday, October 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eindhoven was capital of innovation in 2016, and this fossil free declaration definitely allows it to hold on to its reputation. <strong>This decision sends a clear message that instead of gas-extraction earthquakes and green-washing, what the Netherlands needs is stronger Fossil Free leadership. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news as Eindhoven becomes the third municipality in the Netherlands to commit to divest, taking a clear #FossilFree stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":49535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,264,52,95,275,113,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-divestment-2","category-english","category-europe","category-european","category-municipal","category-municipality","category-netherlands"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49534","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=49534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/divestment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}