Fossil Free UK - Local Government

Campaigns (52)

• Croydon
  End Croydon Council's support of fossil fuels

  Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity. It is real and it is happening now. We know that one of the biggest contributors to climate change is humans burning fossil fuels. If we are to keep to the aims of the Paris agreement and keep global warming to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels then we have to leave 80% of known fossil fuel reserves unburnt. Increasing the threat of climate change or trying to profit from increasing the threat is clearly not a responsible use of public funds. Responsible investors should therefore withdraw their support from every company that is involved in extracting, promoting or selling fossil fuels. Croydon Council's pension fund currently has around £40m invested in fossil fuel companies such as Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell. Croydon Council should take a stand and divest our money from fossil fuel companies. Divestment from fossil fuels would make a powerful statement that the fossil fuel industry is morally and economically unviable, and that the people of Croydon wish to support a sustainable energy future.

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  Created by Ellen Gibson
• York
  

  Divest York from Fossil Fuels

  If it is wrong to wreck the climate, then it is wrong to profit from that wreckage. There is overwhelming scientific evidence of the link between climate change and carbon emissions. More than 450 major organisations worldwide have taken positive action and become part of the solution by pledging to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry. This has resulted in $2.6 Trillion being removed from Fossil Fuel companies. Organisations signed up so far include many universities, the British Medical Association, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, The Quakers and Oxford City Council.

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  Created by Ellen Gibson