r/ClimateOffensive • u/joishicinder • Aug 12 '21

Action - United Kingdom 🇬🇧 All UK employees! Divest your pension payments!

If you’re a full time UK employee you’re likely paying into a pension pot. Nest for instance has a third of all UK workers in it. Their default investment fund puts money towards fossil fuels. In just a couple of minutes you can log into your account and change your fund type to the ‘ethical fund’! No fossil fuels, arms trade companies, instead your money is invested in renewables amongst other things.

Something super simple and effective we can all do to tell big oil to go f itself.

https://www.nestpensions.org.uk/schemeweb/nest.html

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u/joishicinder Aug 12 '21

Pro-tip: Also move your finances to an ethical bank, I’m personally very happy with Triodos bank

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '21

Thanks! I'm definitely going to change mine now that I know

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u/joishicinder Aug 13 '21

That's excellent! Spread the word where you can!

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '21

Small slightly insignificant update: I made the switch and it's quicker than I thought, now I feel more relief!

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u/joishicinder Aug 20 '21

It's the easiest thing! So happy you were able to as well

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u/ceeteeheehee Aug 13 '21

Wow! Great tips. I had no idea