Presented by Friends of the Earth Scotland and UK Divest

15 years after students in a handful of US colleges first called on their universities to remove their investments from fossil fuel companies, the global divestment movement has grown around the world, with thousands of campaigners persuading over 1,700 institutions to divest over $40.76 trillion from planet-wrecking fossil fuels.  

To celebrate these amazing campaigners and to discuss next steps in the campaign for climate justice and a fossil-free future, please join Friends of the Earth Scotland and UK Divest for a webinar with renowned author, climate activist and co-founder of the fossil fuel divestment movement, Bill McKibben, on Tuesday 31st March at 7pm UK time / 2pm Eastern Time.

We’ll hear more about how people-powered divestment campaigning has led to universities, churches, pension funds and even whole countries to stop funding the oil and gas companies that are fuelling climate breakdown. 

We’ll also discuss how we can work together for a new renewable energy future that protects people and the planet, not the profits of big polluters. 

We’ll have time for a Q&A and discussion with Bill McKibben after the talk.  

Everyone is very welcome!

Bill McKibben is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament.  

He's also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He has written more than twenty books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published in 1989, The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened, and his latest book is Here Comes The Sun. 

In the wake of the giant People’s Climate March and the ongoing burst of global activism, Bill McKibben will describe where we are scientifically and politically in the fight to end our reliance on fossil fuel. He’ll show pictures of the burgeoning movement around the planet and give advice on how we can get involved in our homes, our communities and our universities.