When the American environmentalist, Bill McKibben, published his article ‘Climate change’s terrifying new math’ in Rolling Stone magazine in 2012 (1), it catalysed a new phase in the movement to combat climate change. As McKibben said in his important article, ‘The anti-climate change movement needs an enemy. And that enemy is the fossil fuel companies.’ By focusing on oil, gas and coal extraction companies, the debate has shifted from being a purely political one to being a discussion around the deployment of capital.
