Articles by: Ric Lander

As long as our banks, pensions and institutions continue to invest in fossil fuels, we are banking our future on their success – in COP26, but also in our national and local governments.

Scottish Council Pensions are still investing in major polluters - with devastating consequences for communities, climate and their finances.

2020 was a tough year to be a climate activist. Fortunately for the planet, it was an even worse year for the fossil fuel industry.

Activists uncovered over £700 million of polluting investments in Glasgow's council pensions... but the tide may be turning on support for climate polluting investments.

Efforts by climate activists have won huge changes to Scotland's new public bank. That's worth celebrating.

Will this Bank lead the transition to a zero carbon economy or take a business as usual approach?

Ric Lander speaks to Živilė Mantrimaitė and Miriam Wilson about their role in the seminal campaign to divest Glasgow University from fossil fuels.

In 2018 Ireland became the world’s first country to divest from fossil fuels. Could Scotland follow?

10 years on from the financial crisis and big banks are still casting a long shadow over our society.