Posts Tagged ‘university divestment’
Harvard University will divest its $42bn endowment from all fossil fuels
This article was originally published by the Guardian on September 10, 2021. Harvard will divest itself from holdings in fossil fuels, the university’s president, Lawrence Bacow, announced late on Thursday. Harvard Management Company, which oversees the university’s vast endowment of almost $42bn, has already been reducing its financial exposure to fossil fuels and has no…
Read MoreUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO TO DUMP FOSSIL INVESTMENTS, TAKE ‘PROACTIVE’ APPROACH TO CLIMATE RISK
This article originally appeared in The Energy Mix on June 1, 2021. The University of Waterloo moved yesterday to drop all its fossil fuel exploration and extraction investments by 2025 and decarbonize its C$2.7-billion pension and endowment fund 50% by 2030 and 100% by 2040, capping a six-year campaign by Fossil Free UW and allied…
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