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Don't Bank on the Bomb Scotland

Working for disarmament through divestment

  • About Don’t Bank on the Bomb Scotland
  • Introduction to 2021 guide
  • 1. Why divest?
    • 1.1 It’s wrong to invest in weapons of mass destruction
    • 1.2 Nuclear weapons are prohibited under international law
    • 1.3 Divesting from nuclear weapons makes financial sense
    • 1.4 Scotland opposes nuclear weapons
    • 1.5 Divestment can help achieve a world without nuclear weapons
      • 1.5.1 How can this work?
      • 1.5.2 Cluster munitions case study
  • 2. Nuclear weapons producers
  • 3. Scottish Local Government Pension Scheme
    • 3.1 Strathclyde
    • 3.2 Lothian
    • 3.3 Tayside
    • 3.4 Falkirk
    • 3.5 Highland
    • 3.6 Fife
    • 3.7 North East Scotland
    • 3.8 Scottish Borders
    • 3.9 Orkney
    • 3.10 Dumfries and Galloway
    • 3.11 Shetland Islands
  • 3A. How can we divest the Scottish Local Government Pension Scheme from nuclear weapons?
    • 3A.1 The limitations of “engagement”
    • 3A.2 What about fiduciary duty?
    • 3A.3 Councils can pass a resolution supporting divestment
    • 3A.4 ACTION on local authority pension funds: What you can do
  • 4. Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme
  • 5. Scottish universities
    • 5.1 University of Edinburgh
    • 5.2 University of Glasgow
    • 5.3 University of Aberdeen
    • 5.4 University of St Andrews
    • 5.5 University of Dundee
    • 5.6 Heriot-Watt University
    • 5.7 University of Stirling
    • 5.8 University of Strathclyde
    • 5.9 University of the West of Scotland
    • 5.10 Edinburgh Napier University
  • 6. Scottish financial institutions
    • 6.1 NatWest Group (formerly RBS Group)
      • 6.1.1 NatWest Group’s policy
    • 6.2 Lloyds Banking Group
    • 6.3 Standard Life Aberdeen
  • 7. Other British financial institutions
  • 8. ACTION: Banks and pension funds
    • 8.1 Aim: to persuade financial institutions to adopt comprehensive divestment policies
      • 8.1.1 Example of a comprehensive policy: Co-operative Bank
      • 8.1.2 Example of a policy that is not comprehensive: RBS Group
    • 8.2 Tell your bank to stop financing nuclear weapons producers
    • 8.3 Tell your pension fund to stop investing in nuclear weapons producers
  • CAMPAIGN: Divesting local authority pension funds from nuclear weapons
    • ACTION: ask Edinburgh City Councillors to support nuclear weapons divestment
  • Resources
  • EVENTS
    • NatWest Day of Action: 8 April 2022
  • Contact and mailing list
  • Blog
    • Letter to The Herald, 30 April 2022
    • New report reveals nuclear ban treaty’s impact on the financial sector, one year on
    • 15 November 2021: Divestment works! Just ask Serco
    • 21 October 2021: Tell COP26 sponsor NatWest to stop financing nukes
    • 22 January 2021: Nuclear weapons are BANNED!
    • 19 June 20: Support the campaign to divest the University of Glasgow from the arms industry, including major nuclear weapons producers
    • 9 Feb 20: Trident enriches arms companies at the expense of taxpayers, NAO report shows
    • 4 Feb 20: Let’s take our money out of nuclear weapons in 2020
  • Media releases
  • Climate emergency and nuclear weapons: twin existential threats
    • Introduction and executive summary
    • Nuclear weapons divert resources from the climate emergency
      • International climate finance instead of weapons of mass destruction
      • Disarmament, defence diversification and a Green New Deal
    • Environmental harm: uranium mining
    • Environmental harm: nuclear weapons deployment
    • Nuclear and climate injustices: the Marshall Islands
    • Nuclear and climate injustices: Kiribati
    • What would happen if a nuclear bomb was detonated in Glasgow?
    • Climate consequences of nuclear war

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19 June 20: Support the campaign to divest the University of Glasgow from the arms industry, including major nuclear weapons producers!

9 Feb 20: Trident enriches arms companies at the expense of taxpayers, NAO report shows

4 Feb 20: Let’s take our money out of nuclear weapons in 2020!

 

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