university divestment

The Ontario university has made efforts to partially divest, but campus activists say McMaster remains opaque on how it plans to fully part ways with its fossil fuel investments.

A new campaign urges the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University to use their money divested from fossil fuel companies to back projects with social and environmental benefits to local communities.

Professors at Ontario's three largest universities are demanding their soon-to-be-merged pension fund stop investing in fossil fuels, manage divestment of existing assets and set clear and transparent targets towards decarbonizing the fund over the next two decades. 

Despite recent successes, students urging their universities to divest from fossil fuels say school administrations need to pay closer attention to their demands.

A species goes extinct every day. We send clouds of toxic smoke into the sky, creating an opaque blanket of heat that blasts the ice caps. Louis Sobol writes that he never really felt he could do something about it until 2016, when he went to Mount Allison University and became acquainted with Divest MTA.