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For every £10 you put in your pension, £2 is linked to deforestation

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Demand deforestation-free pensions today

Our pensions should protect our future, but instead they’re helping destroy climate-critical forests, and wreaking havoc on the lives of people who depend on these precious ecosystems. But we can help change this. Contact your pension fund today!

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Dear pension fund, Pensions are driving deforestation - your urgent action is needed. Our rainforests are crucial; for limiting warming to 1.5 degrees, preserving swathes of rich biodiversity, and protecting the rights and livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples. But right now, they are under severe threat. From the Amazon in Brazil to Sumatra in Indonesia, we are hurtling towards tipping points that could see these ecosystems collapse. Over £300bn in UK pensions is linked to deforestation. Over 90% of tropical deforestation is driven by agricultural expansion for a handful of globally traded commodities like beef, soy, palm oil and timber. Governments at COP26 agreed to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030, less than six years from now. You must step up and help to achieve this: it’s vitally important to me because I care about the planet and my future. It’s also important because deforestation threatens the money in my pension. Companies linked to deforestation are increasingly facing fines, pressure from consumers, and defaults related to the physical impacts of climate change that they themselves are accelerating. Deforestation-free pensions I want my pension to be deforestation-free, by following best practice such as that set out by Global Canopy and Make My Money Matter in their guide, “How to achieve deforestation-free pensions”. If you have not already done so, I urge you to take steps including mapping and disclosing risk, making commitments and publishing policies to show how you are acting on deforestation, and investing in protecting and restoring nature. There are many helpful tools and data available for you to use. I also urge you to publicly support new UK regulations to make pensions deforestation-free. What are you doing to tackle deforestation? I care deeply about this topic, and I don’t want to retire into a world on fire. Please reply to let me know what you are doing to effectively address deforestation, and how you will ramp up your efforts over the rest of this year. Yours sincerely,
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Unfortunately, Mercer doesn’t have a publicly available email address to send an email to! However, please send them this message by copying and pasting it into the contact form you’ll find by clicking the button below. Thanks. ----- Dear Mercer Pensions are driving deforestation - your urgent action is needed Our rainforests are crucial; for limiting warming to 1.5 degrees, preserving swathes of rich biodiversity, and protecting the rights and livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples. But right now, they are under severe threat. From the Amazon in Brazil to Sumatra in Indonesia, we are hurtling towards tipping points that could see these ecosystems collapse. Over £300bn in UK pensions is linked to deforestation. Over 90% of tropical deforestation is driven by agricultural expansion for a handful of globally traded commodities like beef, soy, palm oil and timber. Governments at COP26 agreed to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030, less than six years from now. You must step up and help to achieve this: it’s vitally important to me because I care about the planet and my future. It’s also important because deforestation threatens the money in my pension. Companies linked to deforestation are increasingly facing fines, pressure from consumers, and defaults related to the physical impacts of climate change that they themselves are accelerating. Deforestation-free pensions I want my pension to be deforestation-free, by following best practice such as that set out by Global Canopy and Make My Money Matter in their guide, “How to achieve deforestation-free pensions”. If you have not already done so, I urge you to take steps including mapping and disclosing risk, making commitments and publishing policies to show how you are acting on deforestation, and investing in protecting and restoring nature. There are many helpful tools and data available for you to use. I also urge you to publicly support new UK regulations to make pensions deforestation-free. What are you doing to tackle deforestation? I care deeply about this topic, and I don’t want to retire into a world on fire. Please reply to let me know what you are doing to effectively address deforestation, and how you will ramp up your efforts over the rest of this year. Yours sincerely,
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£300bn in UK pensions linked to deforestation

From cattle to chocolate, from packaging to pig feed, our pensions are propping up businesses responsible for destroying millions of hectares of forests every year. We can change this.

How are our pensions impacting the natural world?

Almost all tropical deforestation is driven by agricultural expansion for a handful of globally traded commodities like beef, soy, palm oil and timber. Our pension funds provide finance that helps these companies clear 10 million hectares of forest every year. For more information on the link between deforestation and our pensions, click here.

Forests support the lives and livelihoods of 1.6 billion people and deforestation is fuelling the climate and nature crises, impacting so many more. In ‘Saving Jane’, we see the destruction of the Sumatran rainforest in Indonesia – where only 9% of the original tropical rainforest remains intact.

Deforestation also puts our pensions at risk. Companies linked to deforestation are increasingly facing fines and pressure from consumers related to the physical impacts of climate change that they themselves are accelerating.

We can change this. Demand a deforestation-free pension today.

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"I urge all pension providers out there to remove completely any projects involving deforestation from their portfolios."

Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE

Cut deforestation from your pension, today.

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