Resources
This page contains a variety of resources to support divestment campaigners to develop both technical knowledge of the issue and strategies for influencing decision-makers.
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Campaigning resources
Megafunds from April 2026
Find out which megafund your local government pension scheme now belongs to, how much your megafund invests in fossil fuels, and divestment campaigning groups across your region.
Join the Fossil Free network
Connect with other campaigners, share resources, and stay up-to-date on divestment news.
Fossil Free campaign guide
A step-by-step guide to running a successful divestment campaign. From building a group to winning your demands — learn how to pick a target, plan your strategy, and take action.
Campaign guide: lobbying your local councillor [PDF]
This guide provides an overview of Hope for the Future’s relationship-based lobbying approach, tools, tips and techniques for how to effectively communicate with your local councillors about divestment.
Events planning for organisers
Read our online guide on barnstorming, which is a people-powered tactic to build local leadership in your campaign. Use our seven-step checklist to help you host an inspiring event for your campaign.
Mapping The Pensions Pipeline
An interactive tool from UK Divest that shows you what your local council invests in, including what percentage of its investments are in fossil fuels. Public savings aren’t fossil fuel play-things. When it’s bad for the environment, it’s bad for your retirement. Our councils can continue to fuel the fire, or fund a future worth retiring into. What’s yours doing?
UK divestment commitments
This is a list of local government pension fund commitments and signposts to where you can find comprehensive lists of commitments made by UK faith organisations and UK universities. The global database can be accessed here.
Videos and workshops
For video resources from UK Divest, please see our YouTube channel. You can find slides and resources from the 2022 Fossil Free Gathering here.
Want to access more campaigning tools and resources? Visit Friends of the Earth’s Resources webpage for guides on online campaigning, lobbying, building local alliances and much more.
Reports
The ethical and financial arguments for divestment [PDF]
An easy-to-follow introduction to some of the most common arguments that councillors use against divestment, equipping local campaigners with the tools to engage with their local authority.
Pension funds’ engagement with fossil fuel companies [PDF]
This briefing addresses five main arguments that local government pension funds use in favour of engagement with fossil fuel companies, rather than divestment, and suggests how campaigners could respond to them.
Divesting to protect our pensions and the planet: an analysis of local government investments in coal, oil and gas [PDF]
This report from UK Divest offers analysis of local government pension fund investments in fossil fuels.
Polluted Pensions? Clearing the air around UK pensions and fossil fuels [PDF]
This short report from UK Divest finds that UK pension funds have an estimated £128 billion invested in fossil fuels, equivalent to nearly £2,000 for every person in the UK.
Planetary Solvency – finding our balance with nature
This is the IFoA’s fourth report in collaboration with climate scientists. It outlines the failings of many climate risk models, and develops a framework for global risk management that could support future prosperity.
Resources for local councillors and council staff
Protecting our pensions and the planet: briefing for councillors
This briefing for local councillors outlines what fossil fuel divestment is, how divestment safeguards pensions and our communities, why now is the time to act, and what you can do.
Template divestment motion for local councils
This motion can be used as the basis for your local authority’s call to divest.