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Zero Carbon responds to the Paris agreement on climate change at COP21: “The Paris Agreement is yet another nail in the coffin of the fossil fuel industry, as the world moves towards a zero carbon future. This is a nail that civil society must hammer in. Cambridge University has an incredible opportunity to divest, and…
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…
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-goes-to-the-peoples-climate-march-tickets-19558388667 HELLLO PEOPLE OF CAMBRIDGE We, Zero Carbon Cambridge, are trying to organise a coach to take us all to London on the 29th November so we can join thousands of other people in the PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH! We are in the process of getting funding from the local council and Unions, but for this…
Cambridge University Students’ Union (CUSU) Support Following a meeting with Cambridge University Students’ Union (CUSU) on November 23rd, the Council almost unanimously voted to support divestment, to support our campaign and to support the right to protest! This is great news for our campaign – the University must listen to a student body speaking with…
Read more about the launch of our divestment campaign at the University of Cambridge: The university must address climate change (Varsity) http://www.varsity.co.uk/comment/9199 The Zero Carbon Society bursts the Cambridge bubble, urging the university to divest from fossil fuels (Blewswire) http://blewswire.com/zero-carbon-society-bursts-cambridge-bubble-urging-university-divest-fossil-fuels/