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		<title>Liverpool Hope University excludes all fossil fuel investments</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 09:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>FIVE UK UNIVERSITIES JOIN THE FOSSIL FREE MOVEMENT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VICTORY! FIVE more universities divest from all fossil fuels!]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 15:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>First Three English Universities Divest from the Border Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Divest Borders victory as Northumbria, Kent and Worcester all divest from the border industry]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: Robert Gordon University Divests from Fossil Fuels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Gordon University becomes 103rd UK university to divest from fossil fuels, the second to do so in Aberdeen, known as the ‘Oil Capital of Europe’ due to its links with North Sea oil and gas.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: FIRST UK UNIVERSITY PLEDGES NO INVESTMENTS IN BORDER VIOLENCE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cardiff Met has become the first university in the UK to divest from all companies that profit from border violence, resulting in a first win for the student-led Divest Borders campaign.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2023-10-22/press-release-first-uk-university-pledges-no-investments-in-border-violence</link>
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		<title>Press Release: Plymouth Marjon University drops fossil fuel investments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Plymouth Marjon University has announced its divestment from fossil fuels, updating their Ethical Investment Policy to exclude all fossil fuel investments from their portfolio. This move also forms part of Plymouth Marjon University’s larger sustainability strategy. Plymouth Marjon University becomes the twelfth member of the Cathedrals Group of UK universities to commit]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2023-09-20/press-release-plymouth-marjon-university-drops-fossil-fuel-investments</link>
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		<title>Second victory in a week as the University of Brighton rejects fossil fuels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The University of Brighton has become the 86th UK University to make a public commitment to divest from fossil fuel companies. Brighton achieved this by adding their name to People &amp; Planet and NUS’ Fossil Free Declaration, making them the 17th university to do so.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Press release: St Mary’s University, Twickenham rejects all fossil fuels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[***For immediate release*** St Mary’s University, Twickenham rejects all fossil fuels St Mary&#039;s University, Twickenham has become the 89th UK University to make a public commitment to divest from all fossil fuel companies. St Mary’s achieved this by adding their name to People &amp; Planet and NUS’ Fossil Free Declaration, making them the 20th university to join the global]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2023-09-15/press-release-st-mary-s-university-twickenham-rejects-all-fossil-fuels</link>
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		<title>Press release: University of Aberdeen ends fossil fuel investments ahead of COP26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the University of Aberdeen announced that it will divest from all fossil fuels in what is seen as a hugely significant move by an institution at the heart of Europe&#039;s oil and gas capital. A vote of the University’s Court on Wednesday 29th September committed the institution to excluding fossil fuel extractor companies from its £52.7 million investment portfolio by 2025.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: University of the West of England becomes the first university in 2022 to fully divest from fossil fuels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** University of the West of England becomes the first university in 2022 to fully divest from fossil fuels **BEGINS** Today the University of the West of England (‘UWE’) has become the 93rd UK university, and the first in 2022, to announce its divestment from fossil fuel companies. UWE accomplished this by becoming the 21st signatory to the People &amp;]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2023-09-15/press-release-university-west-england-becomes-first-university-2022-fully-divest</link>
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: University of Northampton ditches fossil fuel investments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** HEADLINE: University of Northampton ditches fossil fuel investments ***Begins*** Today the University of Northampton becomes the 95th UK university to announce its divestment from the fossil fuel industry. The decision comes as part of the university’s wider work to journey away from fossil fuels and towards zero net carbon by 2030. The University of]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Press Release: University of Central Lancashire ditches fossil fuel investments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has announced full divestment from the fossil fuel industry. This comes as part of the University&#039;s strategy to prioritise sustainability in the run up to its 200th anniversary in 2028. UCLan divested after updating its ethical investment policy to exclude all fossil fuel companies and in doing so has become the 97th UK]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Press Release: The University of Hull Announces Divestment From Fossil Fuels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the University of Hull announces full divestment from fossil fuels, becoming the 98th UK university to make this commitment. This announcement comes as the University amends their ethical investment policy to explicitly exclude investments in all fossil fuels. The University of Hull now joins over 60% of UK universities committed to divestment from fossil fuels, adding]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Royal College of Art becomes 6th specialist UK university to divest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[**BEGINS** Today, the Royal College of Art (‘RCA’) has announced that it is divesting its £26.7 million investment portfolio from fossil fuel companies. The RCA’s commitment makes it the 101st university in the UK to go Fossil Free and comes following ongoing negotiations with the university, led by the RCA branch of the University and College Union. The RCA’s announcement]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2023-02-08/royal-college-art-becomes-6th-specialist-uk-university-divest</link>
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		<title>Press release: Oxford University Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW REPORT REVEALS OXFORD UNIVERSITY RECEIVED ALMOST £12 MILLION FROM THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY SINCE 2015 Students expose University of Oxford’s extensive financial and personnel ties with the fossil fuel industry On April 20, the student-run Oxford Climate Justice Campaign (OCJC) has revealed that since 2015 the University of Oxford has received over]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2022-12-08/press-release-oxford-university-report</link>
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: First UK university ends fossil fuel industry recruitment on campus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Birkbeck, University of London has become the first university in the UK to end fossil fuel industry recruitment on campus, resulting in a first win for the student-led Fossil Free Careers campaign.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2022-09-28/press-release-first-uk-university-ends-fossil-fuel-industry-recruitment-campus</link>
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		<title>University of Oxford Students’ Union to boycott oil, gas &#x00026; mining recruitment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Oxford University Students Union has voted to boycott recruitment events which feature oil, gas, and mining companies. It joins the student unions at Bristol, Sussex, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Surrey who have all passed similar motions in support of the Fossil Free Careers campaign, coordinated by student campaigning charity People &amp; Planet. The campaign has also been backed]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2022-08-24/university-oxford-students-union-boycott-oil-gas-mining-recruitment</link>
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		<title>Press Release: Rose Bruford College UK’s first drama school to reject fossil fuel industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Rose Bruford College announces its full divestment from the fossil fuel industry, becoming the first specialist drama school in the UK to make the commitment. The college made the public commitment by becoming the latest signatory to People &amp; Planet and the National Union of Students’ Fossil Free Declaration. As a result of student-led campaigning, Rose Bruford College]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2022-08-17/press-release-rose-bruford-college-uk-s-first-drama-school-reject-fossil-fuel</link>
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: Lancaster University drops fossil fuel investments amid COP26 negotiations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Lancaster University drops fossil fuel investments amid COP26 negotiations **BEGINS** This afternoon, Lancaster University has announced that it will divest all of its investment portfolios, worth over £3 million, from fossil fuel companies. Lancaster will also screen out arms trade and tobacco investments. Lancaster University’s commitment makes it]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2022-01-27/press-release-lancaster-university-drops-fossil-fuel-investments-amid-cop26</link>
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		<title>Press release: University of Suffolk permanently excludes fossil fuel investments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[University of Suffolk becomes third university in a month to reject fossil fuels The University of Suffolk has become the 87th UK University to make a public commitment to divest from fossil fuel companies. Suffolk affirmed their fossil free status and committed to permanent exclusion of fossil fuel companies from their investments by becoming the 18th signatory to People &amp;]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2021-04-06/press-release-university-suffolk-permanently-excludes-fossil-fuel-investments</link>
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		<title>London School of Tropical Hygiene &#x00026; Medicine commits to full fossil fuel divestment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (‘LSHTM’) has become the sixth member institution of the University of London to make a commitment to exclude all fossil fuel extractor companies from their investments. This action is in contrast to the slow moves being made by its fellow members to do likewise and take urgent action in response to the climate crisis. LSHTM’s]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2021-03-12/london-school-tropical-hygiene-medicine-commits-full-fossil-fuel-divestment</link>
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		<title>Divestment at Dundee: How We Did It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 5th November 2020, after 5 years of tireless campaigning by students and staff, the University of Dundee divested from all fossil fuels. Student campaigner Hannah Feuerstein tells us how they succeeded: After a rather challenging summer, I felt like our prospects to get the University to listen to us and our demands for divestment were even worse than before. Most of the]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-11-13/divestment-dundee-how-we-did-it</link>
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		<title>Fossil Fuel Divestment: The State of the Sector</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People &amp; Planet and the National Union of Students (NUS) announced today that over a third of universities in the UK have made fossil free commitments, as nine new UK universities have committed to never invest in fossil fuel companies. This brings the total to fifty four institutions which have taken action to exclude fossil fuel companies from their investment portfolios.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/fossil-fuel-divestment-state-sector</link>
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		<title>A Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment at the University of Cambridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If we are serious about preventing catastrophic warming, we cannot dig any new coal mines, drill any new fields, or build any more pipelines. The new reality for power production, according to a recent study from academics at the University of Oxford, is that no new fossil fuel infrastructure can be constructed after 2017 unless other installations are closed before the end of]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/case-fossil-fuel-divestment-university-cambridge</link>
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		<title>GoGreen19: International justice and the Paris Agreement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Discussions of climate change go hand in hand with issues of justice and distributive fairness, this is because the burdens of climate change disproportionately affect the poorest areas of the world where its inhabitant are the least equipped to deal with its impact, due to geographic vulnerability and poverty. Therefore, it seems logical that the international response to]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2020-03-10/gogreen19-international-justice-and-paris-agreement</link>
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		<title>Oxford Students Join #MazaskaTalks Demanding Barclays Divest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning (October 24), we held a peaceful demonstration in Barclay’s bank on Cornmarket Street. Our group of students from the University of Oxford and members of the city joined an international effort to demand banks to stop funding fossil fuel expansion projects, “before it is too late”. Barclays, specifically has invested £48 million in Kinder Morgan, the largest]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2017-10-24/oxford-students-join-mazaskatalks-demanding-barclays-divest</link>
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		<title>DANCE take action at Barclays to divest from fossil fuels?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (DANCE)? DANCE are a network of meditation practitioners from the Buddhist tradition who are deeply concerned about the climate crisis. DANCE grew out of a discussion between Dharma teachers at Gaia House, a meditation retreat centre in Devon. They recognised that one of the results of sustained mindfulness meditation is to]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2017-10-16/dance-take-action-barclays-divest-fossil-fuels</link>
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		<title>Barclays Must Cease and Desist: From Economic Crisis to Environmental Collapse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the financial crash happened in 2007, I was a 17-year-old college student who watched on as the jobs fell away, people lost their homes, and saving the economy seemingly became more important than all the lives that had been destroyed. Being born and raised in the old cotton milling town of Bolton, I was used to seeing people struggling, but this took that struggle to a]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<link>https://peopleandplanet.org/news/2017-10-05/barclays-must-cease-and-desist-economic-crisis-environmental-collapse</link>
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