After a five-year battle over its response to the climate crisis, the University of Cambridge has committed to remove all direct and indirect investments in the fossil fuel industry from its £3.5bn endowment fund by 2030. The Cambridge University Endowment Fund (CUEF) is the largest of any higher education institution in Europe. Cambridge has also…
🔈🔈NEW ZERO CARBON REPORT REVEALS EXTENT OF CAMBRIDGE’S LINKS WITH FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY🔈🔈 This morning we have released a report investigating the wider links between the University of Cambridge and the fossil fuel industry. We found that it is not only through the investments of its endowment that our university supports and legitimises the destructive…
This week, Cambridge opened our campus wide open for BP to recruit its future engineers and managers. And it was not a single petty event; BP organised a full day recruitment programme at the Department of Chemistry on Monday, and a recruitment reception on Tuesday evening at Clare College. The latter included “BP student brand…
Today we publish the Divestment Mythbuster, a fully referenced report to clarify any arguments that you have heard advocating against divestment. In four short independent sections we cover myths such as: 1. “Divestment will impact the University research funding” 2. “Divestment will not have an impact on the fossil fuel industry” 3. “Shareholder investment is…
On 19th of January 2018 we publish a report authored by 20 students from Zero Carbon and partner societies Just Love and Positive Investment Cambridge. Download the full report and a summary infographic. The report wants to draw attention to the need, pragmatism, and positive impact of divestment from fossil fuels. At the same time…
ZERO CARBON SOCIETY PREPARES FOR AN ESCALATION OF DIRECT ACTION IF THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL DOES NOT FOLLOW THROUGH WITH OUR DEMANDS FOR ACHIEVING DIVESTMENT. For the last year and a half, Cambridge Zero Carbon Society has been campaigning for the University to divest from fossil fuels. This comes at a time where climate change is…
This week we set out our ‘Red Lines’ on environmental action and climate change, together with other campaigners around the UK as part of Go Green Week. We worked together with a number of other student groups including CUSU Women’s Campaign and Cambridge Student Action for Refugees – thanks to everyone who took part! It’s…
Our divestment campaign made it into the Financial Times! You can read the article here. (You can only read the article once before you hit a paywall). We’ve also received widespread coverage in student press, and we hope that this continued media scrutiny will maintain pressure on Council to respect the University’s democratic decision making…
Please click here for our press release responding to the report of the Working Group on Investment Responsibility at Cambridge University. “Last Monday the University Council approved the working group report recommending a greater incorporation of environmental and social considerations into investment decisions while steering clear of a divestment decision. This is too little, too…
Read more about our march on the Tab: http://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2015/12/01/student-zero-carbon-campaign-protesters-march-to-tell-university-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels-63280 On November 30th we held a divestment rally in Cambridge as part of People & Planet’s Day of Action against climate change, to mark the beginning of the COP21 Paris Climate Conference. We are calling on the University of Cambridge to divest its £5bn endowment from environmentally destructive and financially…