divest – Hackney Citizen

Divesting from businesses involved in Palestine would ‘breach legal guidance’, council says

By Noora Mykkanen, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 12 February 2024 at 15:57

Pensions committee chair says Town Hall is legally required to ‘ensure thousands of former council employees are paid’

Town Hall reduces carbon investments by a third as campaigners call for further action

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 14 February 2020 at 18:07

Council seeks to cease investing in Indonesian coal-mining company as Divest Hackney says progress ‘not moving fast enough’

Whoville listen? Councillors labelled ‘grinches’ as campaigners again call for 100 per cent fossil fuel divestment

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 17 December 2018 at 17:18

Christmas cards from Hackney children calling for end to high-carbon investments delivered to committee as Town Hall defends 50 per cent divestment by 2022 as ‘ambitious’

Titbits – Fuelling splits and political mis-hits

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 11 December 2018 at 11:15

Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough