{"id":9672,"date":"2020-12-16T07:36:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T07:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9672"},"modified":"2020-12-16T07:36:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T07:36:44","slug":"future-fund-must-divest-from-adani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/16\/future-fund-must-divest-from-adani\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Fund must divest from Adani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-141\">The\u00a0Future Fund must divest the\u00a0$3 million it has put into a railway for\u00a0the climate-destroying Adani coal mine, the Greens say.<\/p>\n<p>Greens Economic Justice Spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is public money and should be invested for the public good.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Having already ruled out investing in tobacco products, the Future Fund must urgently get out of fossil fuels.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;This is a bad investment\u00a0financially, morally and environmentally. To use public funds to cook the planet is an extraordinary error of judgement.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Adani has an appalling environmental and human rights record. They do not deserve a single cent of public money.&#8221;<br \/>\nGreens Leader in the Senate and Spokesperson for Mining and Resources Senator Larissa Waters said:<br \/>\n\u201cAustralians would be horrified to know that their so-called Future Fund is funding projects that would wreck their future.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Public money should not be used to prop up unviable projects that will worsen the climate crisis which is cooking the reef and turbo charging extreme weather events.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Greens have long campaigned for the Future Fund to divest from coal on economic and climate grounds, and now also on human rights grounds.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;There is no economic future in coal as global market dwindle as the world embraces renewable energy to tackle the climate crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Future Fund must divest the\u00a0$3 million it has put into a railway for\u00a0the climate-destroying Adani coal mine, the Greens say. Greens Economic Justice Spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said. &#8220;This is public money and should be invested for the public good.&#8221; &#8220;Having already ruled out investing in tobacco products, the Future Fund must urgently get out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/16\/future-fund-must-divest-from-adani\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Future Fund must divest from Adani&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}