2023 Action Scorecards

Action Scorecards 2023

Question: Has the council passed a motion in support of divestment from all fossil fuels from the councils' pension funds?

Question code
4.11a
Section
Governance & Finance
Topic
Divestment of Pension Funds
Source
National Data
Question weight
Low

Criteria

Points awarded if the motion supports the divestment of the council's own investments.

Points also awarded if the motion supports the divestment of the council's pension investments.

Clarifications

Divestment is the opposite of investment, and consists of stocks, bonds or investment funds that are unethical, and in this case, invested in fossil fuel companies such as Shell, BP and Exxon.

Marked using data provided by UK Divest - https://www.divest.org.uk/council-motions/

Question performance

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CouncilScoreEvidence
Cambridgeshire County Council2/2divest.org.uk
Derbyshire County Council0/2
Devon County Council0/2
East Sussex County Council0/2
Essex County Council0/2
Gloucestershire County Council0/2
Hampshire County Council0/2
Hertfordshire County Council0/2
Kent County Council0/2
Lancashire County Council0/2
Leicestershire County Council0/2
Lincolnshire County Council0/2
Norfolk County Council0/2
Nottinghamshire County Council0/2
Oxfordshire County Council0/2
Staffordshire County Council0/2
Suffolk County Council0/2
Surrey County Council0/2
Warwickshire County Council0/2
West Sussex County Council0/2
Worcestershire County Council0/2