For a Fossil Free Endowment
In late December, Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard students met with CCSR members, a subset of the Harvard Corporation. From FFDH: Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard Meets with Harvard Corporation, Offers Areas for Collaboration From The Crimson: Divest Student Activists Meet with Bacow, Harvard Corporation Committee for First Time in More Than a Year
This past semester, the Harvard Alumni Association has been hosting Climate Conversations in association with members of the Class of 1969, Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment, the Harvard Club of New Hampshire and the Harvard Office for Sustainability. The recorded series can be viewed below: Climate, Biodiversity, Pandemics, and Justice from September 23 Climate, […]
From Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard: Harvard Forward’s Victory is a Mandate from Alumni for Stronger Climate Action From Harvard Magazine: Harvard Divestment Advocates Win Overseer Seats From The Crimson: Harvard Names New Overseers, Including Three Harvard Forward-Backed Candidates From The New York Times: Climate Activists Gain Seats on Harvard Oversight Board From The Harvard Gazette: […]
Support the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act (S2126/A1536) Please fill in this form to sign on to the letter to New York State legislators urging them to support and pass the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act. The Act directs the state comptroller to responsibly divest the state’s $200 billion pension fund from fossil fuels. Text of the […]
In the late summer, early fall 2012, a small group of Harvard undergraduates including Chloe Maxmin (’15) founded Divest Harvard. They were answering the call for environmental activism targeting US campuses launched by the New England based lobbying group Students for a Just and Stable Future, and the international campaign group, 350.org, founded by Harvard […]
In response to the Harvard Corporation’s announcement of a net-zero pledge by 2050, Harvard Medical School Faculty for Divestment sent the following letter to President Bacow, with more than 170 signatories: Dear President Bacow, As Harvard Medical School physicians and scientists currently responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are profoundly aware of the devastating consequences […]
From The Crimson: Harvard Medical School Council Joins Chorus of Faculty Favoring Divestment From Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard: Harvard Medical School Faculty Call for Divestment, Declaration of Climate Emergency
From The Crimson: Harvard Faculty Vote in Favor of Divestment 179-20 From The Washington Post: Harvard faculty votes overwhelmingly to call for divesting endowment from fossil fuels From WBUR: Largest Harvard Faculty Group Votes For Divestment In Fossil Fuels From Harvard Magazine: Climate-Change Advocacy Intensifies
Statement of Support forDivest Harvard – Divest Yale Action November 25, 2019 We fully support the actions undertaken by Divest Harvard and Fossil Free Yale and by the Yale Endowment Justice Coalition at the Harvard-Yale football game on November 23. We join the student activists in asserting that Harvard Management Corporation’s continued investment in the […]
