by Anne MacLennan Recent reports highlight the huge problem of perverse incentives with big corporations subsidised to persist in, and expand, destructive climate, environmental and social practices. At least £2 trillion a year (2.5% global GDP) is spent to support...
by Anne MacLennan ‘Climate change is a war. A category five hurricane releases energy equivalent to 10,000 times the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Those countries on the path of hurricanes and cyclones and submerging coasts are on the front line.’ The...
Highland Council Pension Fund invests over £40 million in the fossil fuel firms most responsible for the climate crisis, including oil company BP and mining giant BHP. Take action by emailing your councillors.
The campaigns for Highland Council to adopt a Charter for Responsible Investment, and to divest from fossil fuels are gaining pace and gathering support.
Groups across the Highlands are calling on the Highland Council Pension Fund to adopt a Charter for Responsible Investment that would evaluate investments against environmental, social and governance criteria.
Make My Money Matter have obtained a Christmas message from Guy Byrne-Woods, the CEO of Forestry Felling Syndicate! ““On behalf of the global logging industry, I want to reach out to say a HUGE thank you, for all your support this year. People like YOU have collectively invested hundreds of millions of pounds with us…[in]..YOUR pension funds and savings”