First UK council to divest pension fund from fossil fuels

By Laura Sharman | 26 September 2016

Waltham Forest LBC has become the first local authority in the UK to divest its pension fund from all fossil fuels.

The council has approved a recommendation to stop investing its Local Government Pension Scheme in fossil fuels within the next five years.

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