Meeting for Sufferings: Call for fossil fuel disinvestment

Meeting for Sufferings has encouraged Britain Yearly Meeting trustees to give up fossil fuel investments

by Caroline Humphries 11th October 2013

Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) has encouraged Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees to give up BYM’s investment in fossil fuels.  The recommendation reflected a groundswell of conviction that investment in fossil fuel extraction is incompatible with the 2011 Quaker commitment to become a low-carbon community.