How to divest your pension fund: steps to take and arguments to face

Want to divest your pension from fossil fuels? Follow these steps including seven arguments you'll have to deal with - and how to knock them down

"We can't divest from fossil fuels unless you tell us," Meryam Omi of Legal and General Investment Management, the UK's largest pension asset manager, told the Guardian recently.

Her words came as we teamed up with the responsible investment charity ShareAction to encourage Guardian readers active on fossil fuel divestment to do just that - to write to their pension fund asking if their money could be moved out of coal, oil and gas companies.