ELECTION PLEDGES: These Brent Council election candidates are pledging to work to divest Brent’s pension fund from fossil fuel investments - ask your candidates to sign up

 From Brent Friends of the Earth

These Councillor candidates in Brent have pledged to do all they can to ensure that Brent Pensions Fund ends its investment in fossil fuels and invests in a just transition to a zero-carbon economy.

 

Jumbo Chan       Brent Council     Harlesden and Kensal Green      Labour

Iman Ahmadi Moghaddam          Brent Council     Wembley Park    Labour

Mary Mitchell    Brent Council     Welsh Harp   Labour       

Ryan Hack           Brent Council     Brondesbury Park     Labour

William Relton   Brent Council     Willesden Green    Green Party

Simon Erskine    Brent Council     Stonebridge     Green Party 

Martin Francis   Brent Council     Tokyngton        Green Party

 

The list will be updated HERE as more candidates sign up.

 

If you are a candidate and would like to take the pledge, please fill in this short form and you will be added to the public pledge list at the bottom of divest.org.uk/elections-2022.

 

Brent Council invests over £20 million of their pension fund money in planet-wrecking fossil fuels.  This also puts members’ pensions in jeopardy as fossil fuel investments now pose a dangerous long-term financial risk.

Cardiff, Waltham Forest, Southwark, Islington, and Lambeth councils have already committed to divesting their pensions.

 If you have any further questions on this, please contact us at Brent FoE or the UK Divest team at ukdivest@gmail.com. Here is a short guide to divestment which provides some more information on the issue. UK Divest is also hosting a webinar for sitting councillors and prospective candidates on Tuesday 26 April which will explore the moral and financial benefits of divesting from gas, oil and coal. If you are interested Please register here