Businesses and unions demand an end to council’s fossil fuel investment
Local support grows for Divest Hackney as UNISON, Grow, Arcola and Green Schools Project among backers
Fossil Fuels
Whoville listen? Councillors labelled ‘grinches’ as campaigners again call for 100 per cent fossil fuel divestment
Christmas cards from Hackney children calling for end to high-carbon investments delivered to committee as Town Hall defends 50 per cent divestment by 2022 as ‘ambitious’
Hackney Council approves further cuts to fossil fuel investments
Divest Hackney campaign welcomes move but calls for ‘truly fossil free pension fund’
Divest Hackney blasts ‘shocking’ rise in council’s fossil fuel investments – after nine-month wait for figures
Town Hall says 80 per cent jump is due to price increases and that it has reduced ‘active’ stocks
Divest Hackney ‘alarmed’ as data suggests rise in fossil fuel investments
Town Hall questions accuracy of figures following January pledge to cut pension fund’s exposure
Campaigners ‘mystified’ over Diane Abbott’s failure to sign fossil fuel pledge
Hackney MP’s team cites ‘Shadow Cabinet protocol’ and unfair media scrutiny
Fossil fuels: ‘Council wrecking the planet’, claim green campaigners
Divest Hackney protests as Pensions Committee digs in its heels over £21m fossil fuel investments
Council’s pension fund’s exposure to CO2 emissions to be slashed in half – but is this too little, too late?
Move may not go far enough to placate environmental campaigners, but pensions committee chairman Councillor Robert Chapman says it is in reality the best arrangement possible
Divest Hackney demands council show ‘true leadership’ by shifting cash from fossil fuels
Campaign group is turning up the heat on council ahead of key meeting this month
Dirty energy comes under fire as council moots divestment from fossil fuels
But Divest Hackney vows to ‘keep the heat on’ until council makes commitment
Hackney announces it will review £42m pension fund investment in dirty energy
‘Most fund members won’t be happy to learn that their money is funding climate change’, say divestment campaigners
Divest Hackney Q&A: Climate activists turn up the heat on local government
Local campaign group explains why it wants Hackney Council to divest from the £42m it has in the fossil fuel industry
Divest Hackney calls on council to end £42m investment in fossil fuels
New campaign puts council’s pension fund in the spotlight as divestment movement turns up the heat on local authorities