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A comparative analysis of the anti-Apartheid and fossil fuel divestment campaigns

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  • Chelsie Hunt
  • Olaf Weber
  • Truzaar Dordi

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Divestment from the fossil fuel industry is campaigned as a means to address carbon-induced anthropogenic climate change, much like the anti-Apartheid divestment movement that was campaigned as a mean to address the country’s human rights violations. However, there is a gap in current literature that objectively compares the similarities and differences between the two campaigns. Discrepancies may arise from an evolving understanding of what constitutes a socially responsible investment or the underlying strategy and intended outcomes of the campaigns themselves. Through a comparative content analysis this paper identifies differences and similarities of both campaigns.

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  • Chelsie Hunt & Olaf Weber & Truzaar Dordi, 2017. "A comparative analysis of the anti-Apartheid and fossil fuel divestment campaigns," Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(1), pages 64-81, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jsustf:v:7:y:2017:i:1:p:64-81
    DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2016.1202641
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    1. Andreas A. Papandreou, 2019. "Stranded assets and the financial system," Working Papers 272, Bank of Greece.
    2. Darlene Himick, 2023. "When Aging and Climate Change Are Brought Together: Fossil Fuel Divestment and a Changing Dispositive of Security," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(5), pages 1-15, March.
    3. Timo Busch & Peter Bruce-Clark & Jeroen Derwall & Robert Eccles & Tessa Hebb & Andreas Hoepner & Christian Klein & Philipp Krueger & Falko Paetzold & Bert Scholtens & Olaf Weber, 2021. "Impact investments: a call for (re)orientation," SN Business & Economics, Springer, vol. 1(2), pages 1-13, February.
    4. Artie W. Ng & Sally Mingle Yorke & Jatin Nathwani, 2022. "Enforcing Double Materiality in Global Sustainability Reporting for Developing Economies: Reflection on Ghana’s Oil Exploration and Mining Sectors," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(16), pages 1-22, August.
    5. Bassen, Alexander & Kaspereit, Thomas & Buchholz, Daniel, 2021. "The Capital Market Impact of Blackrock’s Thermal Coal Divestment Announcement," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 41(C).
    6. Truzaar Dordi & Olaf Weber, 2019. "The Impact of Divestment Announcements on the Share Price of Fossil Fuel Stocks," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-20, June.
    7. Michael A. Urban & Dariusz Wójcik, 2019. "Dirty Banking: Probing the Gap in Sustainable Finance," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(6), pages 1-23, March.
    8. Yiping Zhang & Olaf Weber, 2022. "Investors’ Moral and Financial Concerns—Ethical and Financial Divestment in the Fossil Fuel Industry," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-12, February.
    9. David, Martin, 2018. "The role of organized publics in articulating the exnovation of fossil-fuel technologies for intra- and intergenerational energy justice in energy transitions," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 228(C), pages 339-350.

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