We are part of a rapidly growing global alliance campaigning for divestment. We’re working with trade unions, scheme members and others to persuade the Greater Manchester Pension Fund to ditch its risky and polluting investments in fossil fuel companies.
In response to the climate emergency, we’re calling on the Greater Manchester Pension Fund to:
Wildfires, droughts, floods, hurricanes, extreme heat … the GMPF is funding climate chaos.
Take a look at our “get involved” page.
Over 80% of the world’s coal, oil and gas reserves are unburnable if we want to halt climate change.
The hundreds of billions of pounds invested in energy projects every year need to be moved out of the fossil fuel industry and invested in clean energy instead.
Universities, pension funds, churches and other institutions are increasingly taking their investments out of coal, oil and gas.
We’ve joined this rapidly growing global alliance, and are campaigning to persuade the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) to divest the £1 billion it has invested in fossil fuels.
The Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) is the largest and dirtiest in the country. By following in the footsteps of hundreds of investors, from Norway to New York to Cardiff, the GMPF must divest to…
If you’d like to join the campaign, why not come along to one of our meetings? We meet on Zoom the second and fourth Monday of the month. All welcome. Please email us on fossilfreegm@gmail.com to let us know you’d like to join our meetings and we’ll send you a Zoom link.
Fossil Free Greater Manchester, along with Extinction Rebellion and Unison, brought our campaign to the Mayor’s Question Time in Bolton Arena on 23 March. We were calling on the GM Mayor, Andy Burnham, to take a stance on the Greater Manchester Pension Fund’s huge holdings in fossil fuels. Andy Burnham came outside to talk to…
Read moreDemonstration in Bolton for Mayors question time. Every month, Andy Burnham answers questions from people in one of the 10 Greater Manchester boroughs. This month he’s going to Bolton and so are we. Please will you join us in Bolton on Wednesday evening to demonstrate outside the Mayor’s Question Time event? We will be outside the…
Read morePresenting the case for divestment to Bolton councillors On 10th February we attended Bolton council’s Corporate and External Issues Overview and Scrutiny Committee. We were invited as a follow-up to discussions about the fate of the council’s earlier motion calling on Greater Manchester Pension Fund to divest from fossil fuels. Bolton is among the GM…
Read moreWe’ve heard that yet again officers of the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) have repeated the claim that ‘GMPF achieved over £400 million more in returns than if it had divested its’ shares in oil, gas and coal mining companies.’ We wrote to the fund over a year ago to ask for details of how…
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