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Briefing for Finance Directors
If you haven’t already done so, please consider writing to your Finance Director asking them to urge USS to divest from fossil fuels https://divestuss.org/2026/04/17/write-to-your-finance-director/ Over 100 UK universities have committed to divest their own funds from fossil fuels but are still investing their staff pension contributions with USS which is continuing to invest in fossil…
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Campaign Update May 2026
USS voting at bank AGMs Despite the many emails from members and the efforts of ShareAction, USS voted in favour of the boards at the AGMs of Santander, NatWest and HSBC. All of these banks are backtracking on their climate commitments and continuing to invest in the exploitation of fossil fuels. This appears to be…
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Urge USS to vote against banks backtracking on climate commitments
ShareAction are running a campaign to urge pension schemes to vote against the boards of banks that are backtracking on their climate commitments https://action.shareaction.org/page/186324/action/1?ea.url.id=9167363&forwarded=true We’ve heard from ShareAction that despite USS claiming to be worried about the Climate Crisis and saying they may vote against directors where “a company’s sustainability performance and/or disclosures fall short of expectations.”…