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Chamber and committees

The University of Edinburgh and Fossil Fuels Investment

  • Submitted by: Alison Johnstone, Lothian, Scottish Green Party.
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 May 2015
  • Motion reference: S4M-13235

That the Parliament believes that, in order to achieve a reasonable chance of limiting climate change to internationally agreed levels, the majority of the world’s fossil fuels must remain unused and therefore supports the goal of financial divestment from the fossil fuel industry; congratulates those bodies that it believes have taken positive steps, including the University of Glasgow, which has agreed to withdraw its investments from fossil fuels companies and cited the "devastating impact" of climate change as the reason; considers that the University of Edinburgh's decision not to divest is a missed opportunity to help safeguard the environment and provide economic security for generations to come, and supports the campaign by People & Planet Edinburgh, to encourage the university to reconsider its approach to ethical investment.


Supported by: Malcolm Chisholm, Neil Findlay, John Finnie, Patrick Harvie, Cara Hilton, Anne McTaggart, Jean Urquhart, John Wilson