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
Robert Chapman
‘Deeds, not words’: Town Hall commits to further action on climate change
Conservative councillors vote against commitment to net zero emissions as Town Hall challenged on fossil fuel investments
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
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
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
Elections chaos: higher voter turnout was not biggest problem
Post election post mortem leads to calls for Government to make legal changes to avoid another voting fiasco