Glasgow University Fossil Free

● What is Fossil Free?● Our story● Key challenges● Beyond Glasgow

Outline

Do The Math

“If it's wrong to wreck the climate, it's wrong to profit from that wreckage”

- Bill McKibben, 350.org

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

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.

A global campaign movement

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!