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Stop Funding the End of World

A guide to nuclear weapons divestment in Scotland

  • About this guide
  • Introduction
  • 1. Why divest?
    • 1.1 It’s wrong to invest in nuclear war
    • 1.2 Nuclear weapons threaten our survival
    • 1.3 Nuclear weapons are prohibited by international law
    • 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 Divestment versus “engagement”
    • 3A.2 What about fiduciary duty?
    • 3A.3 Councils can pass a resolution supporting divestment
    • 3A.4 ACTION: What you can do
  • 4. Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme
    • 4.1 ACTION: What you can do
  • 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 Royal Bank of Scotland Group
      • 6.1.1 RBS 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
  • Contact and mailing list
  • Blog
    • 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

3A. How can we divest the Scottish Local Government Pension Scheme from nuclear weapons?

3A.1 Divestment versus “engagement”

3A.2 What about fiduciary duty?

3A.3 Councils can pass a resolution supporting divestment

3A.4 ACTION: What you can do

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