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Excellent news today! 👏 The University of Dundee has finally switched its investment manager from the fossil fuel financier Barclays UK, to Greenbank a specialist ethical and sustainable investment team. Read all about it here 👇 People & Planet

Appointment of Greenbank to manage University endowment portfolio We have recently completed the transfer of management of the University’s endowment portfolio to Greenbank, the specialist ethical, sustainable and impact investment team of Rathbones Group. Our endowment portfolio, which currently stands at around £31 million, is a series of investments that pro...

The University of Dundee's pension scheme - USS - continues financing deforestation and fossil fuel extraction 🌳🔥🌫 Use Make My Money Matter's online tool to tell them this must stop 👇

What is your pension paying for? - Make My Money Matter Your pension is powerful, but right now it’s likely contributing to deforestation. Use our tool below to contact your pension fund and tell them that you want your money building a better world!

Brilliant news! Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University will divest from all fossil fuels 🥳 Well done to student campaigners for this victory 👏

🎉 Victory! Robert Gordon University divests from all fossil fuels! 🎉

A massive congratulations to the student campaigners of RGU Go Green who made this happen, bringing in another incredible victory for Fossil Free!!

We are now calling on Robert Gordon to break its ties with the border industry!

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The University of Dundee is still failing on fossil fuels 😫 Make My Money Matter research shows that despite making a divestment commitment in 2020, it still banks with the leading fossil fuel financer Barclays 🔥 Take action to make them switch! 👇

Universities - Make My Money Matter Don’t let our universities add any more degrees to the climate Universities prepare us for our future, and yet they bank with the very institutions responsible for fuelling an uninhabitable planet. It’s time for universities to give their banks an ultimatum on fossil fuel financing. Tell Your Un...

Divest USS: Help stop your pension fuelling climate change Join our online forum for Uni staff & students to find out more about USSs devastating impact on our climate & what can be done to stop it!

All University of Dundee academic staff have pensions with the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). This new report from Divest USS shows that USS still invests more than £570million in fossil fuel companies. This has to stop! 👇

Read our new Report on the Universities Superannuation Scheme's Response to the Climate Emergency 🌍⛽️✈️

Published October 2022

📔 divestuss.org/report

The University of Dundee has now completed its Divest Dundee pledge 🥳 Read the full statement from the University's Director of Finance Carol Prokopyszyn here 👇

Divesting from fossil fuels The University maintains an investment portfolio of endowment funds, which currently stands at around £29 million. In 2020 we committed to divesting from fossil fuels within five years. I am delighted to inform you this has now been completed, four years early.

University of Dundee Principal Iain Gillespie today announces that the Divest Dundee pledge made last October, has been now been completed four years early 🥳

Principal's end of week message | 30 September 2021 Professor Iain Gillespie shares an end of week message for staff at the University.

Brilliant news 📣 Edinburgh Napier University has committed to divest from fossil fuels! Well done to People & Planet and all the other campaigners involved ✊ Let's hope Heriot-Watt University are next!

💥 VICTORY - Edinburgh Napier divests! 💥

Edinburgh Napier University is the latest university to remove its investments from fossil fuels - great news!

We're calling on Heriot-Watt University to follow suit and become the 11th Scottish university to go fully fossil free before COP26 ⚡

Sign the petition to help make this happen: https://peopleandplanet.org/petitions/heriot-watt-divest-from-all-fossil-fuels

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Want the University of Dundee to commit to divesting its funds from Barclays UK - one of Europe's biggest fossil fuel financiers? Then please complete this short survey (takes 1 minute!) to help kick-start our new campaign with People & Planet ✊

Divest Barclay's - UoD 2021 Barclay's Bank is the largest investor of fossil fuel industries of any bank in Europe. In 2020 the University of Dundee committed to divestment from fossil fuels, yet to this day continues banking with Barclay's. UoD claims to have sustainability targets and standards (alongside with their divestme...

We're supporting People & Planet's Day of Action and demanding that the University of Dundee cuts its ties with the fossil fuel industry and financiers Barclays UK who are complicit in fuelling climate change 🌍

💥 DAY OF DIGITAL ACTION 💥

Today, students across the UK are calling on their universities to end their complicity in the climate crisis.

Their actions will demand unis stop investing in fossil fuels and move away from dirty fossil fuel finance.

Exciting stuff - stay tuned. ✊

University of Dundee might have agreed to divest their endowment from fossil fuels, but they are still allowing Barclays UK - one of Europe's biggest fossil fuel financiers - to manage their fund. They've also not committed to any positive investment in the new industries we need to make a just and green transition. We’re working with People & Planet and Students Organising for Sustainability UK to keep the pressure on. Please join us!

Invest for Change Website: http://investforchange.ukTwitter: https://twitter.com/investforchangeUK universities have over £15 billion* still frequently invested against the in...

Want to know how we got the University of Dundee to commit to divesting its Endowment from fossil fuel companies? 🌍 Read this brilliant blog by Hannah Feuerstein, 4th year student at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee for the People & Planet website, which tells the story of the last year of our campaign ✊

Divestment at Dundee: How We Did It 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 succeeded:

What a great day for the campaign! 🥳

University to divest from fossil fuel companies The University of Dundee has committed to divestment from fossil fuel companies in its £25m endowment portfolio, within the next five years.

We've got some really good news! 🤩 After more than five years of campaigning, we're really pleased to announce that the University of Dundee has today committed to divestment 👉 dundee.ac.uk/stories/university-divest-fossil-fuel-companies
We're still keeping pressure up on the University to commit to our final demand – to switch Investment Manager from Barclays to one committed to ethical investment, as part of People & Planet's Divest Barclays campaign. So please continue to sign and share the petition 👉 campaigns.gofossilfree.org/p/divestdundee

Former archbishop Rowan Williams is demanding universities stop investing in the fossil fuel companies that are fuelling climate change 🌍 Isn't it time University of Dundee took action? Sign our petition 👉 campaigns.gofossilfree.org/p/DIVESTDUNDEE

Rowan Williams urges UK universities to divest from fossil fuels Former archbishop says oil firm holdings not compatible with duty to next generation

Amazing news from Manchester! 💥 After six years' campaigning by Fossil Free University of Manchester, their University has finally committed to divest from all fossil fuels! 💥 Our petition launched six years ago, isn't about time University of Dundee followed suit? Join us here: campaigns.gofossilfree.org/p/DIVESTDUNDEE

💥Two victories today, and this is a HUGE one!! 💥

The University of Manchester has committed to divest from fossil fuels by 2022 🎉🎉 We are very very proud of all the activists at Fossil Free University of Manchester who campaigned for years and never accepted NO as an answer ✊✊ This is their victory! 💥

Read the university's announcement here 👉https://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/display/?id=24211

Great turnout for our Divest Dundee demonstration to coincide with the University's Endowment Committee Meeting on 19 November 2019 ✊ We're demanding that they divest our £23m Endowment from Fossil Fuels. Sign the petition 👉👉 campaigns.gofossilfree.org/p/DIVESTDUNDEE

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