'Do no harm': Medical professionals urge Wellcome Trust to end fossil fuel investments – letter

Almost 1,000, from New York to New Zealand, sign open letter to the medical charity calling on it to move its money out of fossil fuels on ethical grounds

Dear members of the Wellcome Trust Executive Board,

We write as concerned health professionals and academics in relation to the Guardian's Keep It In the Ground campaign calling on the Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation to divest from the world's 200 largest fossil fuel companies over the next five years.