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Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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Local Government Pension Funds failing to protect themselves from financial risk of climate – Friends of the Earth and Platform London report reveals.

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Local Government Pension Funds failing to protect themselves from financial risk of climate – Friends of the Earth and Platform London report reveals. The largest UK Local Government Pension Funds (LGPFs) are failing to take adequate action to reduce the …

Pension protestors claim success (Fossil Free Greater Manchester press release)

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A group of noisy pensioners and a large dinosaur greeted delegates who went to Droylsden in Greater Manchester for the AGM of the Greater Manchester Pension Fund. Passing drivers hooted their horns in support as protestors urged the fund to …

Residents demonstrate for GM pension fund to stop funding climate change

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news release

Local residents will demonstrate outside the Greater Manchester Pension Fund’s (GMPF) annual general meeting on Friday 19th October at 12.30. They will call for the Fund to stop investing in fossil fuel companies and will present remnants from the recent …

New report reveals Greater Manchester councils investing £1 billion in fracking industry

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A national report released today has revealed that Greater Manchester’s councils, led by Tameside Council, are investing £1 billion in fracking companies through their management of the local authority pension fund [1].

Campaigners call on the Greater Manchester Pension Fund to stop investing in fracking companies (Fossil Free Greater Manchester news release)

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news release

On Monday 21st May, campaigners from Fossil Free Greater Manchester and pension fund members will be joining campaigners from Latin America at a vigil outside BP’s Annual General meeting in Manchester, calling on BP to stop fracking in Argentina and …

Greater Manchester Pension Fund lags behind other major cities on climate change

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Climate change campaigners are claiming a partial victory in their campaign for the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) to dump its investments in climate damaging fossil fuel companies – but they say GMPF is doing too little too late.

Local Government Pension Funds failing to protect themselves from financial risk of climate – Friends of the Earth and Platform London report reveals.

Pension protestors claim success (Fossil Free Greater Manchester press release)

Residents demonstrate for GM pension fund to stop funding climate change

New report reveals Greater Manchester councils investing £1 billion in fracking industry

Campaigners call on the Greater Manchester Pension Fund to stop investing in fracking companies (Fossil Free Greater Manchester news release)

Greater Manchester Pension Fund lags behind other major cities on climate change

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