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Glasgow University Fossil Free
● What is Fossil Free?● Our story● Key challenges● Beyond Glasgow
Outline
Do The Math
“If it's wrong to wreck the climate, it's wrong to profit from that wreckage”
- Bill McKibben, 350.org
We're calling on all UK universities to...
1. Move their money out of fossil fuels
2. Stop the greenwash
3. Support a clean energy future
Can divestment work?Anti-Apartheid in the 80s: Divestment applied
direct economic pressure, and helped reveal the immorality of apartheid, galvanizing a movement of concerned citizens around the world.
Tobacco divestment: No UK university in their right mind would accept funding from or invest their funds in tobacco companies these days - it’s inconsistent with their research on cancer.
A global campaign movement
Spreading rapidly across the UK
● Campaigns at 50 universities
● Glasgow: First UK university to divest! £18 million divested from fossil fuels
● SOAS: Put a freeze on any new fossil fuel investments!
● NUS backing the campaign.
● Student Union motions passed at Warwick, UCL, Bristol, Hull, Leeds Met, Sussex, Sheffield, Oxford, Cambridge, Birmingham, UEA, Glasgow, Edinburgh, SOAS, Anglia Ruskin and KCL!