One of the main challenges we face is convincing people that fossil fuel divestment is right. Isn’t divestment hypocritical? Doesn’t shareholder engagement make more sense? Won’t investors lose money? The simple answer to all these questions is: No. Financially, divestment makes sense and morally it is essential. For a more detailed explanation as to why…
See this article in the Independent for more info: ‘Oxbridge academics demand end to fossil fuel investment’ “This is tremendous news, we congratulate Positive Investment Cambridge on their amazing work. This open letter demonstrates the widespread demand for change in the University’s investment policy. Combined with the nearly 2000 students who have signed our divestment…
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…
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/