UCU: Careers Services: informing students and supporting the low carbon economy

Motion

Motion title: Careers Services: informing students and supporting the low carbon economy

Motion text: Congress notes:
1. Impartial, evidence-based advice by careers services is valuable for students and wider society.
2. Careers services promoting roles in oil, gas and mining industries is likely contributing to the global climate crisis, and leading students into careers which will decline as we rapidly decarbonise our economies.
3. Congress 2017 passed a motion resolving to campaign for a Just Transition to a low carbon economy.
Congress resolves to:
a. Actively work with People & Planet to publicly support the student-led Fossil Free Careers campaign, calling on careers services to align their operations with sustainability considerations particularly by declining to promote oil, gas and mining companies.
b. Produce a website statement about this motion, UCU support for this campaign and amplify calls to action.
c. Support the activities of the Green New Deal and work with GND working group to promote this activity in parallel and in overlap where appropriate.