Divestment
Student Activists File Suit Urging Harvard To Divest
The 11-page complaint claims that investment in fossil fuel companies is “a breach of [the University’s] fiduciary and charitable duties as a public charity and nonprofit corporation.”
Faculty Divestment
English professor James T. Engell '73 emphasizes the necessity of reducing CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions at a Harvard Faculty for Divestment presentation in Fong Auditorium on Sunday.
Profs. Present Case for Divestment at Climate Event
Professor Stephen A. Marglin ’59 said that Harvard’s divestiture would not cause fossil fuel companies to collapse, but could set an example for other institutions that might be waiting to follow Harvard’s lead.
Faculty Divestment
Chemistry professor James G. Anderson describes the effects of climate instability at a Harvard Faculty for Divestment presentation in Fong Auditorium on Sunday.
Fossil Fuel Fast
Henney Sullivan '15 dons a 'Divest Fast' pin at the Divest Harvard tent outside Massachusetts Hall in Harvard Yard on Wednesday. Sullivan is one of many students participating in the fast for fossil fuel divestment; he has not eaten since Sunday.
Webcam Question
A man asks environmental activist Clayton ThomasMuller a question via webcam at the Divest Harvard tent outside Massachusetts Hall. ThomasMuller lead a discussion with members of the Harvard community from lockdown near the Canadian parliament as an active shooting was underway on Wednesday.
Activists Kick Off Week-Long Fast for Divestment
Dozens of members of the Harvard community will not be swiping into dining halls this week as they participate in Divest Harvard’s week-long fast.
Arrested Divestment
Divest Harvard’s recent escalation is the outgrowth of a sense of frustration at a University president and Corporation, that to them, are too secretive, too dismissive, and too unresponsive to their fervent calls.
Arrested Divestment
Other higher education institutions, notably Stanford, are finding their stakes in fossil fuels increasingly unconscionable, but Harvard itself has made no intentions to divest. Still, the protests continue.
Timeline: Fossil Fuels Divestment
2002: The Global Climate Coalition, a group of industrial corporations opposed to the Kyoto Protocol, dissolves after a national divestment campaign run by environmental activist Phil Radford.
Divest Harvard Assembles
Students assemble outside Massachusetts Hall to call for Harvard to divest from investments in fossil fuels in April 2013.
Divestment Advocate
William E. McKibben ’82, environmentalist and author of “The End of Nature,” conducts a lecture on climate change and fossil fuel divestment at Sanders Theatre on September 17, 2013.
2013 Divestment Rally
Students assemble outside Massachusetts Hall during the Harvard Divest Rally on April 11, 2013.
Manhattan Climate March
Harvard affiliates advocate for divestment from fossl fuels at the People's Climate March in New York City on September 21, 2014. Approximately 400,000 people attended, including over 100 Harvard affiliates.
Brett and Divest Harvard at Mass Hall
Members of Divest Harvard, including Brett A. Roche '15, far right, who was arrested during a protest two days prior, returned to Massachusetts Hall on May 2, 2014 to renew their call for an open meeting with the Harvard Corporation.
Benjamin and Alli
Benjamin Franta, a Harvard Graduate School student, and Alli J. Welton ‘15 discuss the carbon budget and fossil fuel reserves at their rally in Harvard Yard on March 11, 2014.
Faust, Stanford President Address Climate Change in Op-Ed
Faust and Hennessy wrote that their schools’ contributions to combating climate change will come through education and research.
Harvard Affiliates Join Thousands of Activists for Climate March
Dozens of Harvard students took their climate change efforts beyond the blockades of Massachusetts Hall this weekend, joining hundreds of thousands of activists in Manhattan.
Faculty for Divestment Renew Call for Open Forum
Members of Harvard Faculty for Divestment called once again for an open and public forum with members of the Harvard Corporation and the Harvard Management Company on Tuesday.
Year in Review - Divestment: Argentina Protest
Students advocating for responsible investment tactics protest on the steps of Widener Library.
Money and Morals at HMC
A year of protests and conflicts reveals the divergent conceptions of responsible investment at Harvard.
Interactive Feature: The Class of 2014, By the Numbers
The Crimson’s annual survey of the graduating senior class, presented in words, graphs, and numbers.
Faust Says She Will Work with Faculty, Not Divest Group, To Discuss Climate Change
University President Drew G. Faust said Wednesday that she will work with faculty members to arrange for a “thoughtful exchange” on climate change next fall but that she does not plan to hold the open meeting with the Corporation and members of the activist group Divest Harvard.