The main campaigns we are currently leading at People & Planet Sheffield are Ecosia on Campus and Sweatshop Free
Divest Borders |
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The far right is expanding across Europe and the Americas. The combination of climate crises and decades of military and economic intervention in the Global South is driving tens of millions from their homes. Meanwhile, the border industry swells with the profits of this devastation. Now more than ever is time to fight back and build a world without borders where all have the right to move, stay and thrive.
We are fighting to get our university to divest from companies that profit from the border regime and from the human rights abuses inflicted on migrating people at borders in the UK and across the globe. Students and staff under the banner of People & Planet Sheffield's Divest Borders campaign are fighting to cut ties with this abusive industry. We are calling UoS to:
Sing our petition here - peopleandplanet.org/petitions/divest-borders-sheffield |
Fossil Free Careers
Oil, gas, and mining industries cause immense environmental and social harm.
Their operations are accelerating the ecological emergency, wrecking the climate, polluting the water and permanently destroying landscapes. They are displacing people from their homes and lands, destroying livelihoods, demolishing sacred indigenous sites and leaving workers and communities with severe health problems. However, despite making a fossil fuel divestment commitment back in 2015, the University of Sheffield still invites big polluters to come and recruit students. In February 2022 Sheffield Student's Union passed a Fossil Free Careers motion boycotting all fossil fuel industry recruitment, and calling upon the university to do the same. There is no future for jobs in the oil, gas, and mining industries: they are dead end jobs for students and graduates. Even the most conservative science states we need to dramatically scale down resource extraction if we are to avoid the worst impacts of the climate and ecological crisis. Sheffield university careers department needs to stop putting new workers into oil, gas and mining industries, and take responsibility for building the sustainable, ethical workforce we need to transition to a just and equitable energy system and low-carbon economy. Sign our petition here - peopleandplanet.org/petitions/fossil-free-careers/fossil-free-careers-sheffield |