How to Get Councils to Implement a Climate Emergency Through Policy?

[Tom]

Am linking my most recent negative experience to this topic:

To divest or not divest, that is the question?

I’m sat in the Cherwell District Council meeting writing this, listening to a debate about a motion to divest pension funds. There are a bunch of conservative councillors arguing that we need to keep their pension funds in oil companies as they believe that with their infrastructure and research potential, they can be part of the solution. On the pro divestment side we have Green and Labour councillors arguing that we need to divest the funds, as oil companies simply won’t take action, and dive…