Learn More About Fossil Fuel Divestment at Stanford
Stanford Faculty:
"Three hundred professors at Stanford, including Nobel laureates and this year’s Fields medal winner, are calling on the university to rid itself of all fossil fuel investments, in a sign that the campus divestment movement is gathering force.
In a letter to Stanford’s president, John Hennessy, and the board of trustees, made available exclusively to the Guardian, the faculty members call on the university to recognise the urgency of climate change and divest from all oil, coal and gas companies.
Campus divestment campaigns have spread to about 300 universities and colleges over the last few years, but are largely dominated by students. The Stanford letter was initiated by faculty, and signed by the first female winner of the prestigious Fields prize in mathematics, Maryam Mizarkhani, as well as the Nobel laureates Douglas Osheroff and Roger Kornberg, Paul Ehrlich, a population analyst, Terry Root, a biologist and UN climate report author, and others – 300 [UPDATE: 343 as of 1/30/15] faculty members in total."
- "Stanford professors urge withdrawal from fossil fuel investments." The Guardian. January 11, 2015.
"Three hundred professors at Stanford, including Nobel laureates and this year’s Fields medal winner, are calling on the university to rid itself of all fossil fuel investments, in a sign that the campus divestment movement is gathering force.
In a letter to Stanford’s president, John Hennessy, and the board of trustees, made available exclusively to the Guardian, the faculty members call on the university to recognise the urgency of climate change and divest from all oil, coal and gas companies.
Campus divestment campaigns have spread to about 300 universities and colleges over the last few years, but are largely dominated by students. The Stanford letter was initiated by faculty, and signed by the first female winner of the prestigious Fields prize in mathematics, Maryam Mizarkhani, as well as the Nobel laureates Douglas Osheroff and Roger Kornberg, Paul Ehrlich, a population analyst, Terry Root, a biologist and UN climate report author, and others – 300 [UPDATE: 343 as of 1/30/15] faculty members in total."
- "Stanford professors urge withdrawal from fossil fuel investments." The Guardian. January 11, 2015.
Fossil Free Stanford
Fossil Free Stanford is a student campaign, launched in 2012, requesting that Stanford
Find out more about Fossil Free Stanford at www.fossilfreestanford.org.
Fossil Free Stanford is a student campaign, launched in 2012, requesting that Stanford
- Immediately freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies, and
- Divest within five years from direct ownership and from any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds.
Find out more about Fossil Free Stanford at www.fossilfreestanford.org.
