If it is wrong to wreck the climate, then it is wrong to profit from that wreckage. We believe that educational and religious institutions, city and state governments, and other institutions that serve the public good should divest from fossil fuels.

 

We want the University of Guelph to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies, and divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within 5 years. 200 publicly-traded companies hold the vast majority of listed coal, oil and gas reserves. Those are the companies we’re asking our institution to divest from.

 

Our demands are simple, because they reflect the stark truth of climate science:

 

• To freeze any further investments in fossil fuel companies

• To divest from fossil fuel companies completely in five years