Don’t know your Regent House from your University Council? What exactly is a Grace? Cambridge University’s decision making processes can be pretty confusing. As a result, it can be hard to ensure that those involved in these processes are held to account. We made this video to explain how the system is supposed to work,…
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…
Over the last week we’ve seen a huge victory for our campaign – Regent House passed a Grace committing the University to divest from fossil fuel companies. This is great news, and we hoped it would mean a complete success for our campaign. Unfortunately, the University Council have decided that this Grace is only ‘advisory’,…
The Graduate Union has joined calls for the University of Cambridge to stop investing in fossil fuels. The motion, which called for “the GU to support a policy of divestment of the University’s investments”, was passed by a margin of 9 – 2 at a GU Council meeting on Monday. This brings the GU into…
Students from Zero Carbon Cambridge made the case for divestment from fossil fuels at a recent Discussion held by the the University’s governing body, Regent House. They were joined by supportive academics, resulting in an overwhelming show of support for divestment. This Discussion is expected to lead on to a Regent House vote (“Grace”) next…
Cambridge Zero Carbon Society, CUSU BME Campaign and CUSU Women Campaign organised this action in solidarity with the StopRampal-SaveSundarbans movement in Bangladesh, which is fighting to protect the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, and all the communities and wildlife dependent on it, from destruction by the fossil fuel industry and autocratic government….
Check out this article in The Independent for extended coverage of the University of Cambridge’s decision on fossil fuel divestment. Though Zero Carbon welcomes the University’s blacklisting of coal and tar sands companies, this decision has not gone far enough. The University’s rejection of divestment from oil and gas companies contradict it’s own mission statement,…
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…
Facebook event can be found here. For our last event of this term, join Zero Carbon and The Coal Action Network on June 9th, 7:30pm at the Lecture Theatre (Trinity Hall College) for a very special film and discussion on how to end coal’s journey of destruction. Four coal fired power stations have closed in…
Check out this article written by our campaigns officer Alice Guillaume in the latest edition of BlueSci (Cambridge University science magazine). “Break Free 2016 is part of the international divestment movement, aiming to accelerate the transition towards renewable energy and demonstrate to those in power that we must, as the name suggests, break free from…