2023 Action Scorecards

Action Scorecards 2023

Question: Has the council's pensions fund committed to divesting from all fossil fuels?

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

Criteria

Two tier criteria
Criteria met if the pension fund has committed to partially divesting. For example, it has committed to divesting only from coal, tar sands or oil.

Additional points if the pension fund has committed to divest from all fossil fuels.

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.

Where the council does not have control over its own pension investments, such as where the council pension fund is pooled between local authorities, we are looking for a commitment from the pooled pension fund.

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

Question performance

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Cambridgeshire County Council0/2
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