CLIMATE activists have held online and physically-distanced protests in Glasgow to urge the city’s pension fund to end its £508 million investments in coal, oil and gas companies to tackle the worsening global warming crisis.
The protests come ahead of a crucial vote tomorrow, when councillors on the Strathclyde Pension Fund Committee will decide what to do about Glasgow City Council’s decision to back divestment of the pension fund’s investments in highly polluting fossil fuel companies, including Shell, BP, Chevron and Exxon.
Strathclyde’s is the joint largest local government fund in the UK worth an estimated £24 billion.
In Glasgow, activists gathered outside the City Chambers for a physically-distanced protest and to hand over a letter to the Pension Fund Committee urging them to show climate leadership by divesting from fossil fuels.
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