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  • Ask the North Yorkshire Pension Fund to stop investing in fossil fuels and damaging health

    August 20, 2019
    Ask the North Yorkshire Pension Fund to stop investing in fossil fuels and damaging health

    The North Yorkshire Local Government Pension Fund is investing millions of pounds in the fossil fuel industry. This is fuelling the climate crisis and doing huge damage to human health. If you live in North Yorkshire and work in health then please consider signing this letter calling on the Fund to stop investing in fossil…


  • Ask the Dorset County Pension Fund to stop investing in fossil fuels and damaging health

    August 19, 2019
    Ask the Dorset County Pension Fund to stop investing in fossil fuels and damaging health

    The Dorset County Pension Fund is investing approximately £141 million in the fossil fuel industry. This is fuelling the climate crisis and having devastating impacts on human health. If you live in Dorset and work in health then please consider signing this letter calling on the Fund to stop investing in fossil fuels.


  • Fighting Blood Coal and Blood Mines: In solidarity with communities impacted by Anglo American mining

    April 12, 2019
    Fighting Blood Coal and Blood Mines: In solidarity with communities impacted by Anglo American mining

    An event to stand in solidarity with communities whose health and lives have been devastated by Anglo American’s mining operations across the Global South. Join us for lunch, discussions and a range of practical actions to hold this company to account.


  • Ask the Royal College of Physicians to stop investing in fossil fuels

    March 28, 2019
    Ask the Royal College of Physicians to stop investing in fossil fuels

    Members and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians are co-ordinating this letter to the college President and Treasurer encouraging them to end the college’s investment in the fossil fuel industry.


  • Call on East Riding of Yorkshire County Council and East Riding of Yorkshire County Council Pension Fund Committee to go #FossilFree

    March 26, 2019
    Call on East Riding of Yorkshire County Council and East Riding of Yorkshire County Council Pension Fund Committee to go #FossilFree

    Healthcare workers are calling on the East Riding of Yorkshire County Council and the East Riding of Yorkshire County Council Pension Fund Committee to divest from fossil fuels.


  • Fighting Fracking and Fossil Fuel Divestment – how health professionals can help build a Fossil Free world

    December 14, 2018

    Join global health charity Medact and Concerned Health Professionals UK for an afternoon of talks and workshops in Leeds. We’ll explore how health professionals can help build a fossil free […]


  • Divest Health

    December 24, 2016
    Divest Health

    Our short film explains how the fossil fuel industry impacts health – directly and via climate change – and tells the story of Fossil Free Health so far. Please watch, […]


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