ENVIRONMENT Ireland to become world’s first country to divest from fossil fuels

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NJBIZ STAFF//July 13, 2018//

ENVIRONMENT Ireland to become world’s first country to divest from fossil fuels

Source: NPR

NJBIZ STAFF//July 13, 2018//

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The Republic of Ireland took a crucial step Thursday toward becoming the first country in the world to divest from fossil fuels. Lawmakers in the Dail, the lower house of parliament, advanced a bill requiring the Irish government’s more than $10 billion national investment fund to sell off stakes in coal, oil, gas and peat — and…The Republic of Ireland took a crucial step Thursday toward becoming the first country in the world to divest from fossil fuels. Lawmakers in the Dail, the lower house of parliament, advanced a bill requiring the Irish government’s more than $10 billion national investment fund to sell off stakes in coal, oil, gas and peat — and to do so “as soon as practicable.”

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