Hi John,

As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the globe, and impacts all of
us in a variety of ways, it becomes even more important to seek out
glimmers of light and celebrate the positive news stories that come
through. 

With that in mind, we wanted to let you know about an important and
encouraging milestone reached by the Divest Parliament campaign. Last
week, the trustees of the MP Pension Fund released their annual report,
showing that the fund’s investment in renewables has gone up
significantly, while its fossil fuel investments dropped sharply.

[ [link removed] ]Watch this video about the milestone reached by this campaign and share
the positive news with your friends and communities. 

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This report shows approximately £36 million of new investments in
renewables and significantly reduced investment in fossil fuel companies.
Investment in BP, for example was down by 62%.

This is a positive step in the right direction and shows that our
collective pressure is starting work. We would like to say thank you to
each and every one of you who have written to your MP, met with your MP,
shared posts about the campaign on social media or engaged with it in any
other way.

But our work is not yet done. The fund remains invested in fossil fuels
and is currently nowhere near completely divested from this polluting
industry.

For now, the focus of both politicians and the public is on tackling the
Coronavirus pandemic, and rightly so. But when the time is right, we will
increase our efforts in order to make sure no MP supports fossil fuel
investments as we ramp up pressure ahead of COP26 in November.

[ [link removed] ]Help us celebrate this news and increase the pressure on MPs to go even
further, by watching and sharing this video!

Take care of yourselves and those around you.

In solidarity,

Tytus - on behalf the Divest Parliament Team

PS: In these uncertain times, many more of us are turning to digital tools
to help us connect and organise. Online meetings can be fun, engaging and
effective, but they also require a slightly different ‘toolbox’ than
offline meetings.

[ [link removed] ]To help prepare you for this, sign up for our free skillshare in online
meeting facilitation on Wednesday 25th March.


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