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.

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