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November 10th, 2017 Martin Walker News 0 comments 421

New data has revealed UK councils invest £16.1 billion of their workers’ pensions into companies that extract coal, oil and gas, fuelling dangerous climate change.

While the United Nations meet in Bonn to discuss progress on Paris Agreement climate goals, the new data reveals that UK local government pensions are financially invested in the industry most responsible for climate change.

County Durham invests £108m in fossil fuels, or 3.72% of its pensions.

Compared to 2015 data, investments in fossil fuels by councils nationally have gone up in real terms (from £14bn) and did not change significantly in proportion to the size of the pension funds.

John Hewitt, corporate director of resources at Durham County Council, told Aycliffe Today: “In line with other pension funds, we have a legal duty to act in the financial best interests of all beneficiaries of the Pension Fund and as part of that do not exclude investing in certain companies except where they are barred by UK law.

“We believe that being a shareholder is the best way of engaging with companies but we always retain the right to disinvest.”

The figures, detailed below, show that councils have not made any significant changes to their investments in response to calls from the climate movement, governments, and shareholders to take climate risk into account, in the two years since the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Jane Thewlis, West Yorkshire Pension Fund member and divestment campaigner, said:

“Our pensions are investing in the companies responsible for the climate crisis. This flies in the face of the Paris Agreement, and of all the efforts being made locally to reduce emissions and combat climate change. It’s time to divest.”

The data and online map released by 350.org, Platform, Energy Democracy Project, and Friends of the Earth ranks councils by their fossil fuel investments, and allows residents to see every company or fund their local council has invested into.

George Guivalu Nacewa, Fiji Climate Warrior attending the COP23 talks in Bonn, said: “In the Pacific, the impacts of climate change are not a debate, it is our reality. We need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. We no longer have time to talk. Now is the time to act.”

The UK government mandated local governments to combine their pension investments into eight pools from 2015.

Durham’s pool (border to coast) invests £2.4 billion out of its £43.2 billion into fossil fuels (see data table below).

Several local authorities already committed to divest their pensions from fossil fuels.

The table below sums up the pensions data for Durham and its peers in the border to coast local government pensions pool.

Border to Coast Fund value Fossil fuel investments % invested in fossil fuels
Bedfordshire 2,073,598,891 74,334,574 3.58%
Cumbria 2,602,559,414 100,519,209 3.86%
Durham 2,894,951,018 107,797,266 3.72%
East Riding 4,525,118,402 318,155,216 7.03%
Lincolnshire 2,076,602,921 108,092,429 5.21%
Northumberland 1,057,604,836 72,408,250 6.85%
North Yorkshire 3,036,748,097 175,702,289 5.79%
South Yorkshire 7,539,811,791 388,326,764 5.15%
Surrey 3,763,033,789 256,604,882 6.82%
Teesside 3,843,434,264 275,422,217 7.17%
Tyne and Wear 7,761,342,119 472,872,655 6.09%
Warwickshire 2,021,017,618 74,181,735 3.67%
Total Border to Coast 43,195,823,161 2,424,417,485 5.61%

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