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VICTORY! FIVE more universities divest from all fossil fuels!
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2023-12-01/five-uk-universities-join-the-fossil-free-movement
We are breaking the ban on protest to challenge false solutions. COP21 is supposed to negotiate a new climate agreement. My hopes were high for an ambitious deal. That was before the conference s...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2016-05-11/anna-glasgow-uni-reporting-paris-cop-2015
As the global climate justice movement continues to grow and grow with an increasingly exciting energy, it manifests at its loudest, most colourful, creative, and radical on university campuses a...
On the 2nd of December, Bristol Green Party Councillor Carla Denyer put forward a motion to Bristol University's ‘Court’ with the support of the UoB Fossil Free campaign. The motion both prop...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2016-12-16/bristol-uni-courts-votes-favour-divestment
Newman University just called to tell us that they have blocked their ads from appearing on #MuslimBan cheerleaders Breitbart news! It only took a few hours of campaigning to win this, let's use ...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2017-02-02/stop-ordnance-survey-ads-muslimban-breitbart-news
New research from People & Planet’s University League has shown that a quarter of UK higher education institutions have committed to some form of divestment from fossil fuels. This represents a...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2016-11-22/25-uk-unis-divest-fossil-fuels
The NUS represents 7 million students and passes policy at their annual conference. In collaboration with the Zapotec Indigenous community, UK students from the University West of Scotland and be...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2016-05-25/letter-zapotec-indigenous-community
Despite consistently placing in the top tier of higher education institutions both globally and nationally in terms of academic excellence, Oxford University has consistently shown a poor track r...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2016-12-21/how-can-oxford-explain-lack-progress
How great is Power Shift? Really great! Would Fossil Free TCD have been as effective in our Divestment campaign if we hadn’t attended last summer? No way. Power Shift didn’t just teach us str...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2017-04-13/why-you-should-come-power-shift-2017
St Andrews doesn’t do protests. The normally polite town had its first large protest of the academic year on 30 January when a couple of hundred protesters marched through the town to protest D...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/university-st-andrews-divest
The UK’s top banks are still failing to stamp out their financing for coal projects, trailing some way behind many European and US banks which have introduced policies aimed at cutting ties to ...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2017-08-21/more-black-marks-coal-hungry-uk-banks-latest-report-card
What a night! The votes have been cast and counted and it's clearer than ever that young people want to live in a country based on social justice and dignity for all. We have an opportunity to se...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2017-06-09/today-we-wake-different-world
Last week at the Barclays Annual General Meeting (AGM), the Chairman John McFarlane told shareholders that the bank would be withdrawing their financing of fracking company Third Energy - license...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2017-05-15/barclays-ditch-frackers-third-energy
People & Planet and the National Union of Students (NUS) announced today that over a third of universities in the UK have made fossil free commitments, as nine new UK universities have committed ...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/fossil-fuel-divestment-state-sector
This weekend (14-15 October) Young Labour – the youth wing of the UK Labour Party – passed a policy motion that included supporting fossil fuel divestment and joining the #DivestBarclays camp...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2017-10-16/young-labour-supports-divestment-and-boycotts-barclays
What is Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (DANCE)? DANCE are a network of meditation practitioners from the Buddhist tradition who are deeply concerned about the climate crisis. DANCE ...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2017-10-16/dance-take-action-barclays-divest-fossil-fuels
If we are serious about preventing catastrophic warming, we cannot dig any new coal mines, drill any new fields, or build any more pipelines. The new reality for power production, according to a ...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/case-fossil-fuel-divestment-university-cambridge
When the financial crash happened in 2007, I was a 17-year-old college student who watched on as the jobs fell away, people lost their homes, and saving the economy seemingly became more importan...
Carnival of Climate Chaos Image © Charlie Harvey P&P Summer Gathering Image © John Kentish Anti-retroviral Viread aka Rowan from LSE P&P gets lecture attendees to sign Treat AIDS Now action car...
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UNISON becomes first UK Trade Union to challenge sweatshops in their own supply chain, Who will be next? Public service union UNISON became the first trade union in the UK to ensure the electroni...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-16/unison-goes-sweatshop-free
Since March, a consortium of grassroots anti-racist, migrant-rights and labour rights groups calling ourselves, Coalition Against Borders that is made up of Demilitarise King’s, Docs Not Cops, ...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2023-10-10/festival-resisting-borders
The award was given for the newly launched People & Planet University League (then called "Green League") - the first ever league table comparing the environmental performance of UK universities....
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2017-08-29/https-old-peopleandplanet-org-aboutus-achievements-2007
Persuaded the UK government to lead an international commitment to provide treatment for all by 2010 — millions more now receive treatment Supported countries’ rights to access affordable tre...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2018-02-08/treataidsnow-achievements
Contact: Tara Wight 07758329938 tara.wight@ed.ac.uk Monday 5th February - University of Edinburgh announced it will move its entire investment portfolio out of the fossil fuel industry over the n...
As People & Planet’s annual University League is published, the University of Manchester has ranked in the middle of the road in 71st place. This is yet more evidence that the University is lag...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2017-11-16/manchester-university-lagging-behind-sustainability
Not only has the 2015 #1 failed to make any recognisable progress this year, the University of Plymouth has also failed to maintain it’s ranking between 2016 and 2017, falling a further two pla...
Following 3 years of student campaigning for fossil fuel divestment at the University of Manchester, where the institution has consistently ignored our efforts, we are ramping up the pressure and...
This morning (October 24), we held a peaceful demonstration in Barclay’s bank on Cornmarket Street. Our group of students from the University of Oxford and members of the city joined an interna...
Determining the environmental impact of your degree course can be tough – between greenwashing, behind-the-scenes investments and dodgy supply chains, it can be really hard to know how Green yo...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/what-it-s-study-1st-award-class-university
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 24/01/2018 Contact: Chayley Collis, Fossil Free Huddersfield University - E: huddersfieldfoe@yahoo.co.uk Chris Saltmarsh, Fossil Free Campaigns Coordinator, People & Planet ...
In the 21st century, materialism is heavily ingrained into our society. Clothing trends change on a seasonal basis and electronic gadgets are constantly being updated and improved, with new model...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-16/when-will-plymouth-university-go-sweatshop-free
2017 was an incredible year for the global fossil free movement! In 2018, together we’re going to take it to the next level. How about some New Years Revolutions* for transforming the face of g...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/new-years-revolutions-fossil-free-2018
Last month university staff up and down the country announced they’re going on strike over pension reforms. Universities UK are trying to take away our lecturers’ right to a defined income wh...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/students-support-your-striking-lecturers
The University of Sussex has now moved it’s investment fund out of fossil fuels, after four years of Fossil Free Sussex, the student run campaign, lobbying the university to divest. Sussex Univ...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/victory-sussex-university-goes-fossil-free
On Tuesday 13th February, as part of a series of ongoing activities this Go Green Week, People & Planet and NUS co-hosted a webinar platforming the voices of climate justice organisers in Vietnam...
Press Release - Monday 18 June 2018 Local authorities must work to eradiate exploitation in global supply chains Local authorities are not doing enough to protect workers' rights globally, accord...
Contact: Cara Turton-Chambers, lgxct1@nottingham.ac.uk, 0776233166 For immediate release. The University of Nottingham today announced that they would divest immediately from coal and tar sands a...
After years of student campaigning, the University of Bath has pledged to fully divest its money from Fossil Fuel companies. The university currently has fossil fuel investments of half a million...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/bath-university-goes-fossil-free
TODAY students staged a massive banner drop at the Annual Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge, as a protest against the universities’ investments in fossil fuel companies. Cambridge Universi...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/oxbridge-students-demand-divestment-boat-race-2018
Contact: Khem Rogaly, khemrogaly@gmail.com, 07864745597 Thirteen members of parliament across three parties, including the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott and...
University Council today rejected a hard-line anti-divestment proposed “council” response initially drafted by a small group of financial bureaucrats. This draft response had rejected even th...
Hello, People & Plant friends! My name is Ocean Hyland, I am from Tsleil-waututh Nation which is a community located near Vancouver, BC, Canada. A community which would be heavily affected if the...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/update-kinder-morgan-pipeline-people-planet
In the past academic year, there has been an increasing amount of interest among students and staff to decolonise Cambridge. Though Cambridge has had several years of decolonization-related organ...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2018-04-25/decolonise-cambridge
People & Planet groups across the country are participating in 48 Hours of Action this October, calling attention to union busting in Samsung and other major brands in the electronics industry. K...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/union-busting-s-disgusting
Loughborough University has announced that it is divesting fully from fossil fuel companies building on its prior freeze of all fossil fuel investments following student pressure. The actions of ...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/full-divestment-loughborough-university
NEWS RELEASE DATE: 9 March 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ISSUE NUMBER: 1811 Anglia Ruskin signs pledge for fossil-free future Fossil Fuel Declaration is partnership between the NUS and People & Plan...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/anglia-ruskin-sign-fossil-free-declaration
Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (DANCE) London continue their monthly meditation vigil outside Barclays in Piccadilly Circus London. We walk in meditation from Golden Square nearby a...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/dance-continue-monthly-meditation-vigil-outside-barclays
Fossil Free University of Bristol have submitted a motion to NUS NAtional Conference 2018 #NUSNC18 calling for a boycott of Barclays and to support the divest barclays campaign Motion: SC112 Titl...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/motion-sc112-divest-barclays-nusconference-2018
Power Shift, for me, is what Never Neverland is for Wendy, what Narnia is for Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, and what Hogwarts is for Harry: a magical place where dreams really do come true. In m...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/power-shift-where-dreams-really-do-come-true
Want to know how a small grassroots organisation with a big impact works? Keen to have a hand in its strategy, planning and budget? Chuck a welcoming, inclusive environment where your opinions ar...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2023-02-02/why-be-a-student-trustee
Barclays have just released their much anticipated updated energy policy. Surprise, surprise… Its disappointing to say the least. Here are the headlines: No more project finance for coal mining...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/barclays-new-energy-policy-disappoints
This semester has been a busy one – we've had the 48hrs of Action in solidarity with Samsung factory workers protesting dangerous working conditions and union-busting, the National Day of Actio...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2018-12-03/our-regional-events-semester-went-bang
When we talk about climate justice, we don’t just mean divestment and a transition to cleaner energy, we also mean justice for those whose lives have already been impacted by climate change. Di...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/gogreen19-climate-justice-and-migration-climate-refugees
What’s buried near you? The United Nations report: UNEP Yearbook 2009, p. 45, put the global figure of annual wastes at 2.2 billion tonnes a year, while the World Bank’s Waste Trends 2018 pre...
Every year, People & Planet’s University League ranks the environmental and ethical performance of UK universities. This year, we are proud to say that Bristol has earned a first class rank and...
Discussions of climate change go hand in hand with issues of justice and distributive fairness, this is because the burdens of climate change disproportionately affect the poorest areas of the wo...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/gogreen19-international-justice-and-paris-agreement
This year’s People and Planet University League, published yesterday, scores higher education institutions based on their ethics and sustainability, covering education, energy sources, investme...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2019-07-18/i-feel-betrayed-university-edinburgh
Grace Twum writes about her first experience of Regional Organiser training - how support and active skill-sharing enables new organisers to gain confidence and become powerful campaigners.
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2019-09-09/ro-training-fired-trained
On Tuesday 16th July People & Planet released its 2019 University League, ranking universities by environmental and ethical performance, in which Durham University received a third class grade. D...
Oxford, summer 2018. Picture the scene: a city famed as the birthplace of Lewis Carroll's whimsical Alice In Wonderland will now play host to a group of student activists as they venture down the...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2019-07-30/activist-wonderland-through-training-glass
Found that your university management are sometimes uncooperative or even belligerent? It’s likely that staff are just as tired of them as you are. The forces that students are fighting against...
NUS Vice-President (Society & Citizenship) Zamzam Ibrahim shares some of the discussion from a panel event she recently chaired called ‘C02lonialism: climate change is a racist issue'. Organise...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/gogreen19-climate-change-racist-issue
University of Kent student, Emily Rollerson, on how her university jumped from Third Class to a 2:1 in People & Planet’s 2019 University League. People and Planet has opened my eyes to the ways...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2023-05-11/heres-how-university-jumped-61-league-table-places
The People & Planet University League Table has just been released for 2018/19! This year’s table is particularly interesting as we are now more aware than ever that we stand at the crossroads ...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2019-07-17/shitlist-universities
Our biggest achievement this year was at Leeds University Union’s May Forum, where we put forward a motion asking the union to lobby the University of Leeds to cut ties with Barclays until it s...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-06-22/people-planet-leeds-and-quest-fossil-free-finance
Earlier this month the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) co-signed an open letter with Electronics Watch (EW) clarifying the nature of SUPCS’ affiliation. Electronics Watch is ...
For any campaign to be sustainable over time, campaigners must be able to transfer knowledge from older or more ‘experienced’ members to newer and incoming members. As campaign members freque...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2023-08-17/how-run-successful-campaign-handovers
Hello everyone! Today, it’s the staff team writing this blog post… We’re excited to bring you some details on a very important thing that’s currently happening at People & Planet: the dem...
Before the Sweatshop Free campaign, admittedly, I had never considered the possibility that the electronics that universities purchase could be made in sweatshops, which shows my own ignorance on...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-05-19/sweatshop-free-and-activist-campaigning-module-uea
Last Monday the 4th of May, People & Planet’s Divest Barclays campaign held a webinar ahead of the Barclays’ AGM. At the AGM, which took place on the 7th of May, 24% of Barclays shareholders ...
It’s been two years since the People & Planet Society at University of Plymouth launched their Sweatshop Free Campaign to tackle supply chain injustice on campus and beyond, but sadly the Unive...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-04-30/plymouth-sweatshop-free-petition-hand-during-lockdown
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Barclays Condemned for ‘Fuelling the Next Crisis’ After Rejecting Climate Motion Barclays AGM rejects motion calling for end to fossil fuel financing Climate campaigners...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-05-07/barclays-agm-2020-response
Reading University affiliates to Electronics Watch! “If we expect our students to care more about sustainability we should be setting an example to our community and Electronics Watch does exac...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-05/how-one-students-union-won-big-victory-sweatshop-workers
2019 has seen an unprecedented amount of activism, particularly around climate change, and this Autumn is no exception. Here at Bristol People & Planet we've been involved in the action in a numb...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2019-12-02/awesome-autumn-activism
After 2 years of student campaigning, Sussex Sweatshop Free have managed to secure Electronics Watch affiliation from their university. In their own words, here's how they managed it: Timeline Th...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-02-17/how-sussex-sweatshop-free-won-2-year-campaign
University of Suffolk becomes third university in a month to reject fossil fuels The University of Suffolk has become the 87th UK University to make a public commitment to divest from fossil fuel...
On 26th February, as part of the day of action concluding People & Planet’s 2021 Go Green Week, under the banner ‘Solidarity Across Borders’ students across the country took action in deman...
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (‘LSHTM’) has become the sixth member institution of the University of London to make a commitment to exclude all fossil fuel extractor comp...
On 5th November 2020, after 5 years of tireless campaigning by students and staff, the University of Dundee divested from all fossil fuels. Student campaigner Hannah Feuerstein tells us how they ...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-11-13/divestment-dundee-how-we-did-it
The Sweatshop Free campaign is a movement of people uniting for better workers’ rights for those who work in sweatshops. The campaign, led by students in the People & Planet network, brings tog...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-09-29/uwtsd-campaigning-pandemic
Today the Divest Pride team launched our Visions for Pride video, and delivered it with this letter to Pride in London, LCR Pride, Northern Pride and Pride Glasgow. Dear Pride Glasgow, Pride in L...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-08-14/visions-pride-letter-pride
This was my first ever Power Shift, and People & Planet's first ever online Power Shift. Needless to say, in the run up to Power Shift I felt excited, but also nervous and apprehensive. My mind, ...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-08-07/poem-power-shift-pandemic
Twenty-seven years ago, Barbara Smith asked “Where’s the Revolution?”. We’re still waiting. Pride season 2020 has finished now and we desperately need some reflection on how to build an u...
Left-wing rhetoric is clear on the desire and shared goal for inclusivity; for those from varying sexual orientations, gender identifications, races, ethnicities and abilities to share in equalit...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-07-07/exclusivity-inclusivity-take-class
On Saturday more than 30 students from People & Planet groups all across the country came together to decide our next climate campaign. We're thrilled to announce the End Extractivist Ties propos...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2022-12-08/our-next-climate-campaign
The University of Brighton has become the 86th UK University to make a public commitment to divest from fossil fuel companies. Brighton achieved this by adding their name to People & Planet and N...
***For immediate release*** Barclays - institutional boycotts begin over climate inaction Calls for institutional boycotts of Barclays bank have grown louder after shareholders failed to support ...
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** HEADLINE: University of Northampton ditches fossil fuel investments ***Begins*** Today the University of Northampton becomes the 95th UK university to announce its dives...
Today Rose Bruford College announces its full divestment from the fossil fuel industry, becoming the first specialist drama school in the UK to make the commitment. The college made the public co...
The UK’s largest university staff union, University and College Union (UCU) has voted to back the student-led campaign for Fossil Free Careers at their annual Congress.
The Student Union at Queen’s University Belfast has become the first student union on the island of Ireland to boycott all oil, gas, and mining industry recruitment. Student representatives vot...
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Lancaster University drops fossil fuel investments amid COP26 negotiations **BEGINS** This afternoon, Lancaster University has announced that it will divest all of its i...
We, the undersigned, state our unconditional solidarity with all higher education staff taking industrial action as part of UCU strikes beginning in December 2021. As campaigning organisations le...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2021-11-30/student-orgs-back-ucu-strikes
National Union of Students Officially Endorses Fossil Free Careers The National Union of Students (NUS) has officially endorsed People & Planet’s Fossil Free Careers campaign. In a statement of...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW REPORT REVEALS OXFORD UNIVERSITY RECEIVED ALMOST £12 MILLION FROM THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY SINCE 2015 Students expose University of Oxford’s extensive financial and p...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2022-12-08/press-release-oxford-university-report
Today the University of Aberdeen announced that it will divest from all fossil fuels in what is seen as a hugely significant move by an institution at the heart of Europe's oil and gas capital. A...
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** University of the West of England becomes the first university in 2022 to fully divest from fossil fuels **BEGINS** Today the University of the West of England (‘UWE�...
With the Fossil Free divestment movement continuing to sweep the country, and 93 universities divested so far, students are now taking up the next fight against the corporate players most respons...
***For immediate release*** St Mary’s University, Twickenham rejects all fossil fuels St Mary's University, Twickenham has become the 89th UK University to make a public commitment to divest fr...
Today Brunel University London announces its divestment from fossil fuels, becoming the 99th UK university to make this commitment. Following a student-led campaign, Brunel University London has ...
***Begins*** Today the University of Portsmouth has announced its divestment from fossil fuels. This comes as the university updates its Ethical Investment Policy to exclude all fossil fuel indus...
***Begins*** Falmouth & Exeter Students’ Union has voted to boycott fossil fuel recruiters as part of a student-led campaign to cut ties between the university and the fossil fuel industry. Fol...
**BEGINS** Today, the Royal College of Art (‘RCA’) has announced that it is divesting its £26.7 million investment portfolio from fossil fuel companies. The RCA’s commitment makes it the 1...
The Oxford University Students Union has voted to boycott recruitment events which feature oil, gas, and mining companies. It joins the student unions at Bristol, Sussex, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Su...
Birkbeck, University of London has become the first university in the UK to end fossil fuel industry recruitment on campus, resulting in a first win for the student-led Fossil Free Careers campai...
The Edinburgh branch of the University and College Union (UCU) has voted to back the Fossil Free Careers campaign, making it the first branch in the UK to endorse the campaign. Fossil Free Career...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2022-11-16/ucu-edinburgh-backs-fossil-free-careers-campaign
We are delighted to announce that three more UK universities have ended fossil fuel recruitment on campus. This is a fantastic victory, but we want to go much further. If you're a current student...
Cardiff Met has become the first university in the UK to divest from all companies that profit from border violence, resulting in a first win for the student-led Divest Borders campaign.
Today the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has announced full divestment from the fossil fuel industry. This comes as part of the University's strategy to prioritise sustainability in the...
The 2022/23 People & Planet University League, which ranks 153 UK universities against sustainability and ethics criteria, shows the majority of the UK higher education sector has failed to reach...
Today the University of Hull announces full divestment from fossil fuels, becoming the 98th UK university to make this commitment. This announcement comes as the University amends their ethical i...
Today Plymouth Marjon University has announced its divestment from fossil fuels, updating their Ethical Investment Policy to exclude all fossil fuel investments from their portfolio. This move al...
The Royal College of Art (RCA) and the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) have become the latest UK universities to exclude oil, gas and mining companies from recruiting on campus. Both unive...
Oil, gas, and tar sands companies have been banned from recruiting at Swansea University, following an 18-month campaign by students and staff. As part of a new Ethical Careers Policy implemented...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2023-11-15/swansea-university-bans-oil-and-gas-recruitment
***Begins*** Goldsmiths Students’ Union has voted to boycott fossil fuel recruiters as part of the student-led Fossil Free Careers campaign.The campaign, coordinated by student-led campaigning ...
Swansea University Students’ Union has become the first in Wales to boycott oil, gas, and mining recruitment, after a motion was passed as part of the student-led Fossil Free Careers campaign. ...
***Begins*** The University of Brighton UNISON branch has voted to back the Fossil Free Careers campaign, calling on the University to end its recruitment relationships with the fossil fuel indus...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2023-04-19/brighton-unison-branch-backs-fossil-free-careers
Today the University of Greenwich has announced its divestment from fossil fuels, updating their Ethical Investment Policy to exclude all fossil fuel investments from their portfolio. Greenwich i...
Cardiff University Students’ Union has voted to boycott fossil fuel recruiters following a successful student union motion. This comes as campaigners at Cardiff call on the University to cut ti...
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2023-06-14/cardiff-students-union-boycott-fossil-fuel-recruiters
**BEGINS** Newcastle University Students’ Union has voted to boycott fossil fuel industries as part of a continued student campaign for the University to cut its recruitment ties with the fossi...
Bishop Grosseteste University (BGU) has become the fourth university in the UK to exclude oil, gas, and mining companies from recruiting on campus. The Lincoln-based university joins the Universi...
Divest Borders victory as Northumbria, Kent and Worcester all divest from the border industry
https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2023-11-01/first-three-english-universities-divest-border-industry
Robert Gordon University becomes 103rd UK university to divest from fossil fuels, the second to do so in Aberdeen, known as the ‘Oil Capital of Europe’ due to its links with North Sea oil and...