The Greater Manchester campaign
for fossil fuel divestment

Fossil Free Greater Manchester

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  • Join us in Droylsden on 1 December!
    On Friday 1stĀ December, the GM pension fund management panel are meeting at GMPF office in Droylsden. We’ll be there to ask them why they still haven’t got a divestment plan.Ā  8:30am – 10:00am Guardsman Tony Downes House, Droylsden. TheĀ office is almost opposite the Droylsden tram stop.Several of us will be travellingĀ from Manchester, let us know…

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About us

We are part of a rapidly growing global alliance campaigning for divestment. We’re working with trade unions, scheme members and others to persuade the Greater Manchester Pension Fund to ditch its risky and polluting investments in fossil fuel companies.

In response to the climate emergency, we’re calling on the Greater Manchester Pension Fund to:

  1. Make the fund fossil free within the next 2 years.
  2. Immediately move all investments out of the most polluting fossil fuels (coal, tar sands & fracking).
  3. Develop a strategy to invest in local climate solutions in Greater Manchester.

Wildfires, droughts, floods, hurricanes, extreme heat … the GMPF is funding climate chaos.

  • Over Ā£1.6 billion is currently invested in polluting fossil fuel companies such as Shell & BP.
  • These companies are risky investments for our planet and our pockets.
  • GMPF should take urgent action on the climate emergency – net zero by 2050 is too late.

See our About page for more information.

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Take a look at our  “get involved” page.

 What is divestment?

Over 80% of the world’s coal, oil and gas reserves are unburnable if we want to halt climate change.

The hundreds of billions of pounds invested in energy projects every year need to be moved out of the fossil fuel industry and invested in clean energy instead.

Universities, pension funds, churches and other institutions are increasingly taking their investments out of coal, oil and gas.

We’ve joined this rapidly growing global alliance, and are campaigning to persuade the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) to divest the Ā£1 billion it has invested in fossil fuels.

Why divest?

The Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) is the largest and dirtiest in the  country. By following in the footsteps of hundreds of investors, from Norway to New York to Cardiff, the GMPF must divest to…

  • Do the right thing
    for a safe future for members, their families and families around the world
  • Reduce financial risk
    secure our pensions as fossil fuels are phased out.
  • Protect our reputation
    live up to Greater Manchester’s zero-carbon ambition.
  • Invest in the future
    support clean renewable energy, not the fossil fuel dinosaurs of the past.

Join us

If you’d like to join the campaign, why not come along to one of our meetings?  We meet on Zoom the second and fourth Monday of the month. All welcome. Please email us on fossilfreegm@gmail.com to let us know you’d like to join our meetings and we’ll send you a Zoom link.

Latest Articles

Join us in Droylsden on 1 December!

15th November 2023

On Friday 1stĀ December, the GM pension fund management panel are meeting at GMPF office in Droylsden. We’ll be there to ask them why they still haven’t got a divestment plan.Ā  8:30am – 10:00am Guardsman Tony Downes House, Droylsden. TheĀ office is almost opposite the Droylsden tram stop.Several of us will be travellingĀ from Manchester, let us know…

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Strong Unison support at GM Leaders meeting

30th October 2023

Thanks to everyone who came to our lobby of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) meeting in Bury last Friday 27 October. We had a great show of support from GM Unison branches. We were there to draw attention to GMPF’s holdings in fossil fuels – the highest by value and percent of any UK…

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GMPF – biggest investor in fossil fuels

The latest analysis by UK Divest – The Pensions Pipeline – reveals that UK Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) have Ā£16bn invested in fossil fuel companies. Yet again that the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) has the highest holdings in fossil fuel companies by both value and percent. GMPF had Ā£1.7bn invested in fossil fuel…

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Join us in Bury on Friday 27 October!

20th October 2023

Our next action (the last one for a few weeks!) is in Bury!On Friday 27th October, the leaders of the 10 Greater Manchester councils will be meeting atĀ Bury Town Hall and we’ll be there to greet them. Join us to ask the leaders to demand that the GM pension fund takes its money out of…

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