Motion
- Motion title
- USS divestment
- Session
- 2022-2023
- Meeting link
- HE Conference
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2023
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE17
- Motion text
Conference notes:
1. that the portfolio of public and private investments by the pension fund USS continues to invest its members’ contributions in climate-wrecking fossil fuel companies and biodiversity-wrecking utility companies;
2. that by allowing USS investments in known polluters to go unchecked, we are contributing to climate breakdown.
Conference believes:
a. in the Paris Agreement and the moral obligation of the higher education sector to contribute to climate justice.
Conference resolves:
i. to call on USS to immediately cease investments in fossil fuel companies;
ii. to demand in its negotiations with USS that a transparent and accountable body with UCU representation is formed to monitor and guide future investments so that they are invested into companies with sustainable and renewable resources and practices;
iii. to issue a public statement in support of actions, campaigns, and protests that call for no new licensing for UK oil and gas.
- Proposing body
- University of East Anglia
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2023/H/05-28/096/HE17