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Glasgow University Fossil Free
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● What is Fossil Free? ● Our story ● Key challenges ● Beyond Glasgow Outline
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Do The Math “If it's wrong to wreck the climate, it's wrong to profit from that wreckage” - Bill McKibben, 350.org
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We're calling on all UK universities to... 1. Move their money out of fossil fuels 2. Stop the greenwash 3. Support a clean energy future
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Can divestment work? Anti-Apartheid in the 80s: Divestment applied direct economic pressure, and helped reveal the immorality of apartheid, galvanizing a movement of concerned citizens around the world. Tobacco divestment: No UK university in their right mind would accept funding from or invest their funds in tobacco companies these days - it’s inconsistent with their research on cancer.
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A global campaign movement
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Spreading rapidly across the UK ● Campaigns at 50 universities ● Glasgow: First UK university to divest! £18 million divested from fossil fuels ● SOAS: Put a freeze on any new fossil fuel investments! ● NUS backing the campaign. ● Student Union motions passed at Warwick, UCL, Bristol, Hull, Leeds Met, Sussex, Sheffield, Oxford, Cambridge, Birmingham, UEA, Glasgow, Edinburgh, SOAS, Anglia Ruskin and KCL!
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