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BREAKING: After a decade of constant pressure by students, faculty, and alums, HARVARD IS FINALLY DIVESTING FROM FOSSIL FUELS. It’s a massive victory for our community, the climate movement, and the world — and a strike against the power of the fossil fuel industry.

It took conversations and protests, meetings with administration and faculty/alumni votes, mass sit-ins and arrests, historic legal strategies and storming football fields. But today, we can see proof that activism works, plain and simple.

It shouldn’t have taken a decade for to catch up with the climate reality. This is emblematic of a fundamental lack of transparency, failure of governance, and total lack of accountability to the Harvard community — failings that Harvard must resolve if it wants to address the challenges of the future.

To be sure, this commitment is incomplete until it’s actually done. Harvard can’t afford to delay — the endowment must be decarbonized in full & remaining investments must be eliminated as rapidly as possible. We’ll keep fighting to ensure that Harvard actually follows through on its promises.

And there’s much more to come & to be done — we look forward to a new year of holding it to account when it comes to transparency, just reinvestment, ending the immense financial ties between Harvard’s research initiatives and the fossil fuel industry, & more

To summarize: This announcement is a massive victory for activists and for the planet. And our movement will be here to make sure that for Harvard, it’s only a beginning when it comes to building a more just and stable future.

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