Eight new UK universities set to divest from fossil fuels

Madeleine Cuff
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Oxford Brookes, Portsmouth and Birmingham City University among the latest to make divestment pledge

Eight UK universities with total endowments of £69m have become the latest to announce plans to shelve their fossil fuel investments, doubling the total number of UK universities to divest on moral and...

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