In response to the climate emergency, we’re calling on the Greater Manchester Pension Fund to:
Ask your council leader to tell GMPF to ditch the coal
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.
Moorland fires, toxic air, extreme weather… the GMPF is funding climate chaos.
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 £1.8 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, including Norway and New York City, the GMPF must divest to…
If you’d like to get involved with the campaign, why not come along to one of our meetings? They take place at 7pm on the 2nd and 4th Monday of the month at the Green Fish Resource Centre (46-50 Oldham St, M4 1LE). All welcome, but please contact us in advance to let us know you’ll be joining us.
A lot’s been happening! Dear FFGM Supporters, In this newsletter New data on dirty local government pension investments Our correspondence with GMPF Greater Manchester Councils speak up Action you can take Union members: petition to sign Despite the pandemic, we’re still working hard at Fossil Free Greater Manchester to persuade the Greater Manchester Pension Fund…
Read moreFriends of the Earth and Platform press release Dirty pensions: North West local government funds still heavily invested in fossil fuels Local councils in the north west still have over a billion pounds invested in planet-wrecking fossil fuels through local government pension funds. Freedom of information requests by environmental campaigners found that, despite decreases in recent years, local government pensions in the north…
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Read moreWe welcome the news that all ten of our local councils, along with the GM Combined Authority, have declared a climate emergency. But the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF), run by Tameside on behalf of all the local authorities and other employers, continues to invest huge sums in polluting fossil fuel companies. GMPF’s largest direct…
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