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‘No more blah, blah, blah’: Campaigners renew demands for Hackney’s pension fund to divest from fossil fuels

Campaigners gathered outside the Town Hall last week to call for swifter action

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

‘No more blah, blah, blah’: Campaigners renew demands for Hackney’s pension fund to divest from fossil fuels

‘Simply too much at stake’: Campaigners unite to protest Hackney’s fossil fuel investments

Divest Hackney and Extinction Rebellion call on council pension fund to fully divest from a ‘reckless, dying industry’

Author: Lizzie McAllister

‘Simply too much at stake’: Campaigners unite to protest Hackney’s fossil fuel investments

Campaigners call for ‘high ambition’ as Town Hall announces review of fossil fuel investments

Divest Hackney urges council to ‘go further than it has before’

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Pensions committee divestment credit Divest Hackney

Whoville listen? Councillors labelled ‘grinches’ as campaigners again call for 100 per cent fossil fuel divestment

Christmas cards from Hackney children calling for end to high-carbon investments delivered to committee as Town Hall defends 50 per cent divestment by 2022 as ‘ambitious’

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Whoville listen? Councillors labelled ‘grinches’ as campaigners again call for 100 per cent fossil fuel divestment

Titbits – Fuelling splits and political mis-hits

Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough

Author: Hackney Citizen

Campaigners stage ‘satirical’ dodgeball protest outside oil giant’s clean energy festival

Activists, including local group Divest Hackney, take aim at Shell’s ‘sickeningly cynical’ Make the Future event

Author: Max Eckersley

Campaigners stage ‘satirical’ dodgeball protest outside oil giant’s clean energy festival

Hackney Council approves further cuts to fossil fuel investments

Divest Hackney campaign welcomes move but calls for ‘truly fossil free pension fund’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Council approves further cuts to fossil fuel investments

Divest Hackney blasts ‘shocking’ rise in council’s fossil fuel investments – after nine-month wait for figures

Town Hall says 80 per cent jump is due to price increases and that it has reduced ‘active’ stocks

Author: Hackney Citizen

Divest Hackney blasts ‘shocking’ rise in council’s fossil fuel investments – after nine-month wait for figures

Divest Hackney ‘alarmed’ as data suggests rise in fossil fuel investments

Town Hall questions accuracy of figures following January pledge to cut pension fund’s exposure

Author: Hackney Citizen

Climate campaigners set for Saturday stunt in Hackney

Divest Hackney supporters to chase ‘giant fossil fuel monster’ out of borough in protest at council’s investment strategy

Author: Hackney Citizen

Climate campaigners set for Saturday stunt in Hackney

Fossil fuels: ‘Council wrecking the planet’, claim green campaigners

Divest Hackney protests as Pensions Committee digs in its heels over £21m fossil fuel investments

Author: Hackney Citizen

Leader – Politicians must be prepared to upset drivers

CPZs and cycle superhighways infuriate some motorists but cleaning up the air is for the good of everyone

Author: Hackney Citizen