2025 Action Scorecards

Question · Action Scorecards 2025

Has the council's pensions fund committed to divesting from all fossil fuels?

Question code
4.11b
Section
Governance & Finance
Topic
Divestment of Pension Funds
Source
National Data
Question weight
Medium

Criteria

Two-tier criteria
First tier criteria met if the pension fund has committed to partially divesting. For example, it has committed to divesting only from coal, tar sands or oil.

Second tier criteria met if the pension fund has committed to divest from all fossil fuels.

Clarifications

Divestment is the opposite of investment, and consists of stocks, bonds or investment funds that are unethical, and in this case, invested in fossil fuel companies such as Shell, BP and Exxon.

Where the council does not have control over its own pension investments, such as where the council pension fund is pooled between local authorities, we are looking for a commitment from the pooled pension fund.

Marked using data provided by UK Divest - https://www.divest.org.uk/commitments/

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Cambridgeshire County Council
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Derbyshire County Council
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0/2--No evidence found
Devon County Council
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0/2--No evidence found
East Sussex County Council
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0/2--No evidence found
Essex County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Gloucestershire County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Hampshire County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Hertfordshire County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Kent County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Lancashire County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Leicestershire County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Lincolnshire County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Norfolk County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Nottinghamshire County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Oxfordshire County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Staffordshire County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Suffolk County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Surrey County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Warwickshire County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
West Sussex County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found
Worcestershire County Council
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0/2
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0/2--No evidence found