GRAY MAGUIRE: UCT’s move against fossil fuel investment signals hardening attitude

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The university seems to have realised that engaging the companies in question is a fruitless exercise

After nine years of campaigning, climate justice activists won a largely unheralded but significant battle last week when the University of Cape Town council announced that it had agreed in principle to immediately divest from international fossil fuel investments and reinvest in renewable energy and green economy assets.

While only 2.5% of the university’s about R7bn endowment fund is invested in fossil fuels, the move signals a steadily hardening attitude on behalf of investors towards climate inaction from fossil fuel companies...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.

 

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What hypocrisy. I assume they will also immediately stop using any electricity that comes from fossil fuels. I thought universities were supposed to teach critical thinking….

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