The first-of-its-kind report finds pension funds of four major hospital networks including the Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Ascension Health System, and the nation’s largest health system HCA Healthcare have over $4.6 billion invested in fossil fuels. Download and read the report here.
View Report18 November 2025 62 faith institutions from across the world today announced institutional fossil fuel divestment comitments, sending a signal to negotiators at the UN climate summit in Brazil on the urgent need for fossil fuel phase out. Noting the…
Faith Leaders Speak out on Divestment and Climate Justice: Announce Fossil Fuel DivestmentOct 2025 – The ruling ends a six-year dispute over the proposed plant that began in 2019, when a Kenyan tribunal initially canceled an environmental license for the massive $2billion coal facility. Local and regional groups including Save Lamu, the…
Kenya: Court Rejects License for Giant Lamu Coal PlantNew report examines the public heath impacts caused by emitted air pollutants including SO2, NOX, VOCs and PM2.5, from private-equity-backed coal-fired plants, LNG export terminals and oil & gas extraction facilities across the United States. The emissions from these facilities…
The $15 billion, 1000+ death burden on US healthcare from PE fossil fuel investments – reportDoctors and medical practitioners representing some of the largest associations and networks of public health professionals are calling upon South Asian Governments to phase out fossil fuels – oil, gas and coal – to avert the twin crises of air…
Air Quality Life Index / University of Chicago calls for Phasing Out Fossil Fuels in AsiaThe Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association could have earned an additional $4,100 for each of its members over the last 10 years if it had divested its fossil fuel stocks – Corporate Knights, Jan 2023 report Full report here
Colorado Pension Fund Loses US $2.7 Billion by Not Divesting from Fossil FuelsReport: Hope for Children through Climate Justice: Tools to Hold Fossil Fuel Financiers Legally Accountable World Council of Children. March 25, 2025 A guide to hold fossil fuel investors legally accountable, to safeguard both today’s children and future generations,…
World Council of Churches issues Guide to Hold Fossil Fuel Investors Legally Accountable – (2025)The Joint Commission – November 2024 ”More than ever, even in places not previously considered to be at risk, healthcare facilities must prepare for environmental disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods, and extreme heat; must be prepared to rapidly…
Hospitals Should Prepare Facilities, Staff and Patients for Climate Disasters: The Joint Commission (2024)Chief Healthcare Executive Jan 2025 Hospitals and community health facilities across the United States are experiencing increasing numbers of emergency evacuations, facility shut-downs, and shortages of medical supplies in recent years due to accelerating extreme weather events attributed to global…
From Hurricanes to Wildfires, Hospitals Must Plan for Climate Disasters (2025)In a little-reported but world-first decision, the government of Ethiopia in 2024 banned imports of petrol and diesel vehicles. The reasons were “first and foremost an economic strategy,” said Yizengaw Yitayih, a senior climate expert at the Ethiopian ministry of transport…
Ethiopia: First Country in the World to Ban Imports of Gasoline & Diesel Vehicles (2025)July 3, 2024 – New York A New York Supreme Court judge has thrown out a lawsuit against three of the five public NY pension funds in the $264.3 billion New York City Retirement Systems, saying the plaintiffs lacked standing…
NY judge dismisses anti-ESG lawsuits: fossil fuel divestment is legalMarch 6, 2025 – Kampala Eleven student/activists from Students Against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) have been released from a jail in Uganda today, following a series of protests against the construction of this massive new fossil fuel…
Uganda: Eleven Activists Released from Jail Following Climate ProtestMarch 6, 2025 – FORBES TIAA, one of the largest managers of retirement funds in the world, invests almost $80 billion in fossil fuels, representing gross financial irresponsibility, according to analysts with TIAA-Divest (@TIAADIVEST), amidst the growing international calls for…
Fiduciary Responsibility and Fossil Fuels: The Case of TIAA (Forbes)A dangerous polar vortex subjected large swathes of North America today to dangerous freezing weather, forcing the closure of local healthcare clinics from the Northern Plains to Louisiana and Texas. Hospitals cancelled surgeries and local health clinics were forced shut.…
Polar vortex reaches Louisiana and Texas; health systems disrupted, clinics shutRecent years have seen explosive growth in the acquisition of private healthcare systems by private-equity firms. New research by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project reveals 460 US hospitals – some 20% of all for-profit hospital systems in the US –…
Private Equity Now Owns Hundreds of Hospital SystemsOctober 2024 – HCA – the largest private healthcare chain in the US – suffered an estimated $300 million in operating losses due to damages to its facilities from Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which devastated large portions of the US…
Largest US Healthcare Chain Suffers $300 Million Loss from Hurricanes Maria, Helene30 October 2024 The 2024 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, launched today, reveals a stark escalation in climate-related health threats, with 10 of 15 indicators tracking health threats reaching alarming new records. “We are seeing record-breaking heat waves, droughts…
The Lancet calls for fossil fuel divestment to save livesOct 4, 2023 The National Academy of Medicine – the most esteemed and influential medical organization in the United States, today announced its commitment to divest it’s insitutional holdings from fossil fuels. Read about the announcement here and here.
National Academy of Medicine Announces Fossil Fuel Divestment (2023)December 2020 The Rockefeller Foundation -whose fortune was built from the oil industry- announces a commitment to divesting its $5 billion endowment from existing fossil fuel interests while refraining from future fossil fuel investments. Link here: https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/the-rockefeller-foundation-commits-to-divesting-from-fossil-fuels/
Rockefeller Foundation Divests From Fossil FuelsSeptember 2023 The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO), representing over 50,000 nurses, published a letter they sent to Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) -the largest healthcare pension manager in Ontario- demanding they divest their current C$1.6 billion of…
Largest Nurses Association in Ontario Tells Its Pension Manager: Divest From Fossil Fuels