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Category Archives: energy
Policies for the City Region – serialised: Part 2, Energy.
We continue the serialisation of our report, Policies for the City Region. This installment is about Greater Manchester using considerably less energy, and the transition to clean energy. It is a long installment but we thought it best to keep … Continue reading
Greater Manchester climate campaigners not convinced by Pension Fund’s arguments
Steady State Manchester is part of the coalition that came together as Fossil Free Greater Manchester (FFGM) to campaign for the largest local authority pension fund to divest from fossil fuels. It is consistent with our thinking on the regional … Continue reading
Open letter on fossil fuel divestment to Chair of GM Pension Fund
Steady State Manchester is part of Fossil Free Greater Manchester (FFGM), a coalition of organisations and individuals campaigning for the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) to take its money out of fossil fuels. This is part of an international campaign … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, energy, investments and finance, news
Tagged climate change, divestment, GMPF, Go Fossil Free
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Global emissions – a brief guide for the perplexed.
This article now republished at degrowth.de as Again and again: supposed evidence for decoupling emissions from growth is not what it seems. Note: we have published other, including more recent, pieces on the myth of decoupling, including commentary on more … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, economics, energy, news
Tagged climate change, decoupling, economic growth, energy, GHG emissions
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GMPF and fossil fuel divestment – update
First the good news: we understand that Greater Manchester Pension Fund has agreed to update its “responsible investment policy” in line with current thinking on Trustees duties. That is to say, it will now consider social and ethical considerations to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, energy, Money system, news
Tagged campaigns, divestment, energy, GMPF, investment, Pensions
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The decoupling debate, one year on: the global picture, and Manchester.
update: an updated and longer version of this piece now appears at degrowth.de and was also syndicated by resilience.org and This Changes Everything Note: we have published other, including more recent, pieces on the myth of decoupling, including commentary on … Continue reading
Not just ecologically, but financially unviable too: GMPF’s fossil fuel investments
Our last post was about the fossil fuel divestment campaign that is focussing on local government pension funds, and in our case Greater Manchester Pension Fund. One argument made against the divestment campaign is that Trustees (responsible for the Fund) … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, economics, energy
Tagged divestment, Friends of the Earth, GMPF, Go Fossil Free, Pensions
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Campaign on Greater Manchester Pension Fund’s investments hots up
Some months ago we reported on our attempts to encourage Greater Manchester Pension Fund to rethink its investment strategy, using explicit ethical criteria as part of its overall strategy for sound investments and returns, and in particular to move money … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, energy, environment, Greater Manchester City Region
Tagged divestment, Friends of the Earth, GMPF, Go Fossil Free, Pensions
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