Guardian Petition for Fossil Fuel Divestment Receives 60,000 Signatures
by Emma Howard (The Guardian) The Keep it in the Ground campaign asks the Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation to divest their endowments from fossil fuels
In less than 24 hours, more than 60,000 readers have joined a campaign on the Guardian’s website asking the world’s largest charitable foundations – the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust – to divest their endowments from fossil fuels.
It was, in the words of one reader, “a big day in civic journalism”. The Guardian’s website and front page have never looked quite like it, as oil dripped down where the news would normally be.
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Student divestment campaigners are making themselves heard on an increasing number of campuses around the UK, with Glasgow university becoming the first in Europe to divest last October. The campaigners co-ordinating the student movement are crowd-funding so they can hire someone to support the growing movement. They have already hit their initial £15,000 target and have nowincreased it to £17,000. READ MORE
