100 UK universities pledge to divest from fossil fuels

Exclusive: move affecting 65% of institutions means endowments worth almost 18bn out of reach for firms

One hundred universities in the UK have pledged to divest from fossil fuels, the Guardian can reveal.

This equates to 65% of the country's higher education sector refusing to make at least some investments in fossil fuel companies, and endowments worth more than 17.6bn now out of reach for the corporations.