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Divest USS campaigns for the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) to divest from the fossil fuel industry 💷💰💸 @DivestUSS.bsky.social

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

Read our new Report on @USSpensions's Response to the Climate Emergency 🌍⛽️✈️
Published October 2022
📔 https://t.co/jtm8ivufbA

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

USS owns 10% Heathrow but that doesn’t mean we need a climate wrecking third runway. Protest now ! https://t.co/5s9zsj1bmn

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

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

[Make My Money Matter @MMMoneyMatter]

Our pension money is being used to fuel the climate crisis.​ We should be investing to protect our retirement, not jeopardise it.  ​

Learn more from our CEO Tony on the Real Zero Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube💥

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis - Petitions. Urgently needed - sign and send on. https://t.co/khy44yWtJq

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

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! https://t.co/RcfQ5MXLUD

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

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!

[Luca Bersanetti @luca_bersanetti]

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 https://t.co/N5EVkGlFFq via @ukdivest

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

Same problem with USS - only small % of members can choose fossil free pension and only small % of those actually make the choice. Default fund should be fossil fuel free!

[Platform @PlatformLondon]

Billions of pounds from our wages are contributing to deforestation, displacement, and extreme weather around the world.

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[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

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! https://t.co/yQEK4LuQZS

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

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

[People & Planet @peopleandplanet]

🎉 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! 🙌

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

We’re leaving X. Please continue to follow us on bluesky - and our blog https://t.co/kGMNYZS6H6. 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!

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

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.

[People & Planet @peopleandplanet]

🎉 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 🔥!

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

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…

[Make My Money Matter @MMMoneyMatter]

🚨 @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 ❌ ​
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https://t.co/c9K7Cmyot1

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

@USSpensions Please read and reconsider your view that divestment doesn’t work

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

People can feel powerless in the face of a worsening climate emergency, but divestment is a positive change that is fully within an individual’s or an organisation’s control.

The BMJ describes how we are acting on our promises, and why others must too
https://t.co/YSfnkBKUso

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

USS have just sent out a members survey - to active members. Please look out for it and let them know your thoughts.

[Make My Money Matter @MMMoneyMatter]

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the University of Bristol Botanic Garden this weekend 🔥​
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What's next?🪵2/3 top UK pension providers still don’t have a deforestation policy. Let's change this – demand deforestation-free pensions: ​

https://t.co/HSGv4UgSYe​

@BristolUni @cabotinstitute @lukejerram

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

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!

[Make My Money Matter @MMMoneyMatter]

Is your bank financing the climate crisis? 🔥 @HSBC & @NatWest_Help have pumped millions into a company behind the controversial Rosebank oil field ❌ ​

#StopRosebank​

https://t.co/y1FAqRbvgs

[Make My Money Matter @MMMoneyMatter]

Is your bank financing the climate crisis? 🔥 @HSBC & @NatWest_Help have pumped millions into a company behind the controversial Rosebank oil field ❌ ​

#StopRosebank​

https://t.co/y1FAqRbvgs

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

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 ! https://t.co/gNWYdIvutO

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

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

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

🚨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...

[Divest USS @DivestUSS]

@LostInSW19 @bingle_colin @USSpensions @thameswater @USSbriefs @ProfPensions Thanks - we’ll read the report