Sentences with phrase «universities divest»

When universities divest, they send a message about where they see the future of energy going.

This latest report was co-written by one of Oreskes» post-doctoral fellows, Geoffrey Supran, a leader in the fossil fuel divestment movement who once published an op - ed in The Guardian under the breathless headline, «Until universities divest from fossil fuels they will undermine all they stand for.»

Yale University divested part of its endowment fund, and some corporations including Amica Insurance and General Electric have stopped investing in private prisons.

Though not a formal recommendation, three - quarters of the committee members supported the university divesting from coal and tar sand companies but not from other fossil fuel industry members.

Not exact matches

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

So it's disheartening that the student body at Barnard, a women's college that is part of Columbia University, voted Wednesday to encourage the administration to divest from companies that do business with Israel.

BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.

Some university endowments are considering divesting fossil - fuel stocks.

They began urging institutional investors, including universities, to divest their assets from companies that did business with the regime.

«SB 1146 seeks to divest us of our religious distinctives,» and «weaken the rich educational diversity of our state» wrote Biola University president Barry H. Corey in letter to faculty and staff.

A full - throated campaign has taken root at the University at Buffalo, calling on officials to divest endowment funds from fossil fuel companies, as several universities around the country already have done.

In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow climate change.

However, no universities have actually divested.

The suggestion to divest the GBT (among other sites) was not an easy one to make, says Daniel Eisenstein, a Harvard University astronomer and chair of the Portfolio Review Committee that issued the recommendation.

Frank Wolak, an economics professor at Stanford University, which has pledged to divest its coal holdings, responded that MIT's endowment, one of the biggest in the world, is a blip in the $ 60 trillion pool of public equities sloshing around worldwide, and the cost of divesting would be negligible.

Yet at this forum, an on - campus debate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over whether the university should divest the fossil fuel holdings within its $ 11 billion endowment, might not have happened if market forces properly priced the economic and environmental costs of climate change, a theme that Anthony Cortese, the event moderator, alluded to at the outset.

While she was a student, Marshall became active in the U.S. - based anti-apartheid movement, demanding that universities and churches divest their holdings in companies doing business in apartheid South Africa and demanding that banks extend loans to the South African government.

In the English Department where I teach, at a mid-sized Midwestern university, we have just voted virtually unanimously (there are about 40 of us in the department — there was one abstention) for our university endowment to divest from fossil fuel interests.

And if the climate movement can keep pressuring the the government, banks and universities to invest in the future and divest from fossil fuels, it seems inevitable that we'll be burning less coal in the coming years, whether President Obama has officially waged a War on Coal or not.

In the UK, Glasgow University became the first academic institution in Europe to divest earlier this year, following a number of US universities» example.

He was a member of the divestment movement, urging colleges and universities to pull their endowment investments out of oil and natural gas companies and tweeted about how it was a «sane» position to suggest that «Exxon's actions may have imperiled all of humanity... It's time to divest.»

Students also gathered hundreds of student signatures calling on campus administration to divest their universities» endowments from fossil fuels.

The goal of the campaign is to convince college and university presidents and boards to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies, and divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within five years.

After Glasgow University became the first university in Europe to divest, more than a third of UK universities have followed suit, with students driving the divestment movement across University became the first university in Europe to divest, more than a third of UK universities have followed suit, with students driving the divestment movement across university in Europe to divest, more than a third of UK universities have followed suit, with students driving the divestment movement across the world.

Beginning as a movement in 2011, young people on campuses across the US were determined that their college or university should not be putting money into fossil fuels, and urged their schools to divest their endowments away from fossil fuel companies.

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Over the past three years, close to five hundred staff, students and alumni have called on UCT to divest, a call that has the strong support of the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, where the University's climate change research is centred.

Drawing comparisons to the anti-apartheid effort, McKibben urged a mass movement pressuring universities, colleges, churches and local governments to divest their holdings in fossil fuel companies.

Since November, divestment campaigns have spread to 210 universities in the United States and Canada, and to the city of Seattle, the first municipality seeking to divest its $ 1.9 billion pension fund.

Kevin Galvin, Harvard's director of news and media relations, told InsideClimate News the university «is not considering divesting from companies related to fossil fuels.»

It is also driving a global campaign to lobby municipalities, public universities, and pension funds to divest from fossil fuels.

The university has been slowly divesting for a few years but made it official this month.

UD joins a growing list of universities choosing to divest endowments due to concerns about climate disruption and sustainability.

This week the University of Dayton made news when it announced that «it will begin divesting coal and fossil fuels from its $ 670 million investment pool.»

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Glasgow University joins thirteen US universities, including Stanford, which have already committed to divest from the fossil fuel industry.

University court votes to divest # 18m from fossil fuel industry in what campaigners call «dramatic beachhead»

If we can't shut down a pipeline or prevent fracking someplace or get a university to divest itself of investments in the oil industry, how can we imagine that we're actually going to overthrow capitalism?

We're here today, graduates of this proud university, to demand that Harvard divest from fossil fuels, not because it's easy — though it is.

Notably, Stanford University earlier this year announced it will divest publicly listed coal mining companies from its $ 19bn endowment, citing, like other fiduciaries as of late, the substantial environmental and social injury caused by coal as the justification for its decision.

Mann's employer this weekend began the shameful task of divesting itself of all inflated claims on university websites and official documentation that Mann was ever a Peace Prize recipient with Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Alex Epstein writes a letter published on the Center for Industrial Progress» website titled, «Don't Divest, Educate — An Open Letter to American Universities,» in which he and several other notable climate change deniers, including Peter Ferrara, J. Scott Armstrong, Steve Goreham, S. Fred Singer, David Schnare, Richard Lindzen, and Matt Ridley, proclaim that they are «proud to stand in favor of fossil fuels.»

«Don't Divest, Educate — An Open Letter to American Universities,» Center for Industrial Progress, June 5, 2013.

This coordinated effort of several organizations bringing their own delegations include youth leaders who have successfully pressured their universities to divest from fossil fuels.

The university will also divest any funds currently invested in them.

But so far, the university has refused to divest because its president, Drew Faust, says divestment is «likely to have a negligible financial impact on the affected companies.»

Over in the midwest, students are calling on the Badgers to divest and just published an editorial in the University of Wisconsin's campus newspaper (more editorials are popping up across the country, like this one from Cornell).

With Swarthmore joining Hampshire, Unity, and hopefully many more, the school can help push other colleges and universities to divest.

When I was a university student we occupied the president's office demanding that our school divest from South Africa.

OAKLAND, CA — A new campaign to push colleges and universities to divest from the fossil fuel industry has spread like wildfire to over 190 campuses across the country in just over a month.