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Students march against climate change on Rue de Treves next to the European Parliament in Brussels on 24 January 2019. Bence Damokos [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]

Many schools and sixth-form colleges across the UK are unwittingly helping to fund climate change through their contributions to Local Government Pension Schemes. These Pension Schemes have £16 billion pounds of people’s pension monies invested in giant oil, coal and gas companies like Exxon and BP. By taking action in their schools, students, parents, teachers and staff can help to break the hold these companies currently have on economies and governments around the world, and make way for a just transition to renewable energy.

Benjamin reports on Global Justice Now's recent one-day conference

31 October – 24 November, Jermyn Street Theatre

A film that uses humour to convey the absurdity of armed conflict.

Cedric Knight comments on Theo Simon's recent piece on Extinction Rebellion.

Theo Simon responds to Gabriel Carlyle's recent article.

If Extinction Rebellion plans to gradually build capacity for its big demands by winning smaller-scale victories then why has it launched itself with (apparently) no indication as to what these smaller-scale wins are going to be?

Esme Needham reviews Tessa Boase's new book Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather

What is a sustainable diet? Is a vegan diet necessarily sustainable? And what's blocking moves to a more sustainable food system? Ian Sinclair investigates.

Benjamin reports on the Open Rights Group's digital rights conference, ORGCon 2017