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Lessons and legacies from the University of Manchester divestment victory
On 22 May 2020, the University of Manchester became the 82nd UK university to announce its divestment from fossil fuel companies, after more than eight years of campaigning by the…
Barclays is funding the climate crisis. Now students are fighting back.
Another day, another climate crisis headline. We’ve just had the hottest decade ever. Australia is burning, just as the Amazon and the Arctic did before. The human impacts are here,…
Green New Deal on tour – UK Green news round up week 43
Alex Phillips launches Green New Deal report The Green New Deal is all the rage right now. One of its most prominent proponents in the Green Party of England and…
Scottish Green Party conference special – UK Green news round up week 41
Scottish Greens seek to win 16 Holyrood seats Image credit: Scottish Green Party The Scottish Green Party met for its Autumn Conference this weekend in Inverness. And top of the…
Only 5% of UK universities are taking investment in renewables seriously
Image credit: Creative Commons, Tom Corser People & Planet has revealed the universities leading the UK higher education sector in investment in renewable energy. The student activist network has published…
Police disruption of the boat race protest shows our movement is too powerful to ignore
Image credit: Cambridge Zero Carbon (This image is of the 2018 boat race protest) ‘Oxbridge Come Clean’ was the message we planned to unfurl across Hammersmith Bridge during the 2019…
Police disrupt student divestment protest at Oxbridge boat race
Image credit: Cambridge Zero Carbon (This image is of the 2018 boat race protest) More than 50 students, representing Oxford Climate Justice Campaign and Cambridge Zero Carbon Society, today attended…
Meet the students overseeing People & Planet’s radical campus organising
Image credit: People & Planet The People & Planet network has elected four new Student Trustees to guide the radical organisation for the next two years. They will join nine…
Momentum members join fight against Barclays’ fossil fuel funding
Image Credit: Against the Grain Photography Momentum are treading new ground as they launch a new ‘Bankrupting Climate Change’ campaign against Barclays over their funding of fossil fuel companies. Collaborating…
Two massive victories for the student divestment movement
Image credit: Creative Commons - Kate Ausburn In the past 48 hours, the student divestment movement took another leap forward. Two more institutions joined the more than 1,000 worldwide that…