Divest USS campaigns for the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) to divest from the fossil fuel industry 💷💰💸 https://xitter.cf/t.co/SwdTN9Lvnu @DivestUSS.bsky.social
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Read our new Report on @USSpensions's Response to the Climate Emergency 🌍⛽️✈️
Published October 2022
📔 divestuss.org/report
ALT Read DivestUSS's new Report
USS owns 10% Heathrow but that doesn’t mean we need a climate wrecking third runway. Protest now ! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio…
Exactly! USS investing our pension money into fossil fuels and the banks that fund fossil fuels. Members don’t want this but trustees ignore their views. Universities divest but continue to pay USS £ millions. Let’s change this in 2025
Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis - Petitions. Urgently needed - sign and send on. petition.parliament.uk/petit…
University bans on big oil firms at recruitment fairs rise by 30%. Great work by People and Planet. But university staff pension (USS) still invests in oil gas fracking tar sands and the banks that fund them. Divest now! theguardian.com/education/20…
So thousand of workers in the NEST scheme can divest their pensions but in USS only those in the DC scheme can choose an ethical option. Why ? We need all to have this option not just the lucky few!
I've pledged to make my workplace pension fossil free with @ukdivest! Can you join me to protect our futures and our communities by pledging to divest your pension? #DivestNest divest.org.uk/take-action-ne… via @ukdivest
So you don’t want more money funding fossil fuels; your university doesn’t want more money funding fossil fuels but both you and your university are investing your pension in fossil fuels! Write to your finance officer today! divestuss.org/news/
Fantastic news and well done all at People and Planet. Now we have to get fossil free pensions for academic staff. Support our campaign and follow us on @DivestUSS.bsky.social
🎉 HUGE NEWS!! 🎉
🔥 This is the result of over a decade of relentless student campaigning!
Every petition, every demonstration, every occupation mattered. UK universities are taking a stand against the fossil fuel industry!
Share now to celebrate this massive milestone! 🙌
ALT Collage of UK universities against blue sky. Text overlaid reads: “75% of UK universities divest from fossil fuels”
We’re leaving X. Please continue to follow us on bluesky - and our blog divestuss.org. We really need to increase the pressure on USS to give us a clean pension that doesn’t harm others and doesn’t continue to fund new oil and gas!
Great news and congratulations to all at Herriot-watt and P&P. Now we have to kick fossil fuels out of USS. No pensions on a dead planet and look at the terrifying events in Spain.
🎉 VICTORY! Heriot-Watt University divests from fossil fuels! 🎉
Huge congrats to students and staff that secured this win - including @HWUnion and the Society for Progressive Students! 🧡
A massive 110 UK universities have now excluded fossil fuels from their investments 🔥!
ALT Crowd of students stand outside holding up handmade placards with climate justice slogans on and a banner that reads "demand better". Text overlaid reads: Victory! Heriot-Watt University divests from fossil fuels
And of course USS invests our pensions in Lloyds - and Barclays and HSBC. Name an oily bank and you’ll probably find USS invests in it! Wouldn’t it be nice to have a pension scheme we could be proud of…
🚨 @LloydsBank are an oily bank – they won't stop their flow of cash to new fossil fuels. They're hoping we won’t notice that much like @BarclaysUK and @HSBC, they are still financing the companies that are driving the climate crisis ❌
makemymoneymatter.co.uk/lloy…
USS have just sent out a members survey - to active members. Please look out for it and let them know your thoughts.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us at the University of Bristol Botanic Garden this weekend 🔥
What's next?🪵2/3 top UK pension providers still don’t have a deforestation policy. Let's change this – demand deforestation-free pensions:
makemymoneymatter.co.uk/what…
@BristolUni @cabotinstitute @lukejerram
And of course USS invests our pensions in HSBC and NatWest. They don’t seem to be able to stop themselves investing in climate wrecking companies!
Is your bank financing the climate crisis? 🔥 @HSBC & @NatWest_Help have pumped millions into a company behind the controversial Rosebank oil field ❌
#StopRosebank
makemymoneymatter.co.uk/rose…
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Is your bank financing the climate crisis? 🔥 @HSBC & @NatWest_Help have pumped millions into a company behind the controversial Rosebank oil field ❌
#StopRosebank
makemymoneymatter.co.uk/rose…
Top UK food firms urged to do more to cut ‘staggering’ emissions. Shocking - and USS invests in all 4 of the top emitters. That’s £ 424 million of our pensions burning up the planet. Engagement isn’t working - time to divest ! theguardian.com/environment/…
USS invest £133 million in Unilever (Dove’s parent company) and say Unilever is ‘corporate climate leader’. Film below shows this is wrong. We don’t want our pensions invested in dirty companies - divest now! #divestUSS #USSpensions
🚨BREAKING: New Greenpeace film EXPOSES @Dove's 20-year lie in 3 minutes! 💥
Watch as mothers and daughters see the SHOCKING reality for the first time. Their genuine reactions will leave you SPEECHLESS...
You may have thought our last post suggested USS listening to some members and had concerns that investing in Israel was providing support to IDF and their actions in Gaza. This clarifies uss.co.uk/news-and-views/lat…. Decision was purely financial!
