We have a significant opportunity for YOU to help progress our campaign asking UCT to start divesting its endowment fund from fossil fuels THIS YEAR, to start to foster a genuinely socially responsible investment industry in South Africa. Please ask your department, school or organisation to write to the new UCT Council, urging it to …
We have always been clear that at the heart of our campaign to halt all investments in climate-breaking fossil fuels, is the pursuit to advance and protect human rights, not just financial capital. That is because climate and ecological breakdown is unequivocally a human rights issue. One that does and will continue to affect us …
We can’t protect our shared global climate until Black Lives Matter Read More »
We’re working to create investment funds that invest in a safer climate and secure future for our children. Campaigning for a world without the deadly fossil fuels – coal, gas, and oil – that cause climate breakdown. At the moment, all too many of us are supporting the fossil fuel industry indirectly and involuntarily through …
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This year we are launching an additional newsletter, Planet A Investment, for financial professionals. Take a look at the first of many newsletters to come below. If this is something you’d like to continue receiving, sign up for the update straight to your inbox. Cut global emissions by 7.6% every year for next decade to …
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UCT’s Convocation, the body comprising all alumni and academic staff, meets on Thursday 12 December 2019 at Kramer Building Lecture Theatre 1, Middle Campus at 17h00 for 17h30. For the second time, we will be proposing a motion on divestment. If you’re a UCT alumnus or academic staff member, you’re eligible to offer a (non-binding) vote in favour …
The following was sent out to our mailing list in response to the recent gazetting of the integrated resource plan in South Africa. For news straight to your inbox, sign up to our mailing list here. As you may have heard, for the first time since 2010 the South African government has managed to finalise …
The following message was published by the Financing the Future Steering committee: Earlier this month in Cape Town, Financing the Future brought together over 300 leaders from 44 countries focusing on the intersection of climate justice, finance, energy access and social justice. It was a remarkable event that featured leaders from faith-based institutions, governments, NGOs, foundations, academia, environmental and human …
There were a number of events that took place throughout the country inline with the global climate strike / week for climate which saw more than 7million people world wide come out in support of climate justice. Here are a few of the actions that took place in South Africa: Cape Town Photos by Nicky …
‘The future of finance must be clean’ – historic Cape Town summit closes Huge momentum on divesting from fossil fuels as unprecedented faith based commitments join a strong statement against shareholder engagement strategies 11 September, 2019 Cape Town, South Africa: Working together over two days at the global ‘Financing the Future Summit’ advocates made several …
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On 20 September, the youth of Cape Town will take to the streets for the third time this year to protest the SA Government’s lack of action on the climate emergency: South Africa is warming at a rate nearly double the global average. Learners from around 50 schools across the city mobilised by the African Climate Alliance will be …
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