Seven schools committed to divest from fossil fuels over the last year, but this fall semester, a number of colleges across the country, such as Vassar, Pomona, and Middlebury, have been rejecting student requests to
dump their fossil fuel stocks.
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres called on big firms that manage trillions of dollars of investments to
dump fossil fuel stocks in favor of greener alternatives, arguing that such a shift would help the firms» clients as well as the climate.