Watch – Bristol Uni’s “Ethical investment policy”… £5.6m in fossil fuels?

By Alec Saelens on 10th December, 2015

FILM | INVESTIGATIONS: fossil fuels

Students, Councillors and the public call to divest

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Video produced by Joanne Ball

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