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Extinction Rebellion stage protest in Bournemouth
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BCP Council questions by environmental groups for lack of action
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DORSET Council is one of three local authorities in the South West with the largest percentage of assets invested in fossil fuels. A report by environmental campaigners Friends of the Earth and Platform revealed that the pension fund of Dorset invests around 4.49 per cent of the fund’s value into fossil fuels. According to the campaigners, Dorset, Devon, and Avon council pension funds account for 58 per cent of all fossil fuel investments by Local Authority Pension Funds in the South West. Co-ordinator of East Dorset Friends of the Earth, Angela Pooley told the Daily Echo: “Our first thought on this report, along with the national Friends of the Earth, was that we should be moving away from fossil fuels and, locally, there should be no more investment at all in fossil fuels.
Bill Gates, Mark Carney and others warn us climate change is a much bigger threat than Covid. Risks of feed-back loops, domino-type feedbacks and runaway climate change need to be avoided. Atmospheric carbon needs to return to 280 parts per million CO2 for safety. We are now at 417ppm and rising. We can all, especially representatives, help do something about this. I noted East Dorset Friends of the Earth’s criticism of BCP’s shockingly delayed, inadequate response to the climate and biodiverity crises. The portfolio holder for regeneration, economy and strategic planning, deputy leader of BCP Council, Philip Broadhead, did not answer my question.