Congratulations to the group of Faculty at the University of Waterloo for calling on the university to divest! You can read the letter here. Like faculty at a number of other universities, they have taken a stand at this critical juncture in the climate crisis. While at some universities […]
University of Waterloo Board considers call for Divestment after Environment Students’ Divestment Vote By Yonatan Strauch @ydstrauch Why divest from fossil fuels? For most students at the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Environment that question answered itself. When a group of us with Fossil Free UW campaigned to divest the student-funded endowment […]
On October 20th when I heard Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau tell the world “On behalf of 35 million Canadians, we’re back,” I teared up and was surprised that my lingering concerns had been temporarily overpowered by hope. But two weeks later, those concerns are still with me as I […]
Our economic system is broken; it’s unsustainable. John Fullerton, the founder and president of Capital Institute recently explained to a packed auditorium at the Centre for International Governance Innovation that the core assumption of how we generate our prosperity no longer works. Capital Institute is “a collaborative [that is] working […]
Shell is asking investors to bet against the possibility of the world taking action on climate change or of renewables displacing fossil fuels, says influential economist Nick Stern in a panel discussion for the Guardian newspaper. “They do not believe the world will be wise enough to follow policies that […]
The lead up to Global Divestment Day is seeing unprecedented progress in the development of Divestment Campaigns across Canadian campuses. On Tuesday, faculty at the University of British Columbia (UBC) voted in favour of divesting completely from fossil fuels within five years! This is not an insignificant gesture. According […]
Climate action was prominent on the agenda of the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Presentations by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, UK climate advisor and economist Lord Stern, and former US Vice-President Al Gore highlighted the significance of action on carbon emissions and […]
Prominent Stanford faculty call on the university’s endowment fund to pull out of all fossil fuel investments, not just coal. Last May Stanford, which controls a $21.4bn endowment, eliminated direct investments in coal mining companies, making it the most prominent university to cut its ties to industries that cause climate […]
Numerous reports over the past year – published by mainstream, high profile groups – have raised alarms about the risks we face if we fail to act, or act too slowly, to reduce our carbon emissions and by extension the accelerating effects of climate change. The most recent report, […]
The Prime Minister’s comments on the importance of economic growth over climate change action, reported in a recent article in the Toronto Star, create a false choice. They are evidence that he has ignored the advice from some of Canada’s brightest minds, who for the last 25 years worked on the convergence […]
