By Aimee Villalpando |Staff Writer| Divest Harvard is one of over 400 campaigns at universities across the nation calling for endowments in fossil fuel companies to be terminated, according to divestharvard.com. Harvard currently has $34.6 million invested in the top 200 fossil fuel companies, which is the largest university endowment in the world. Endowments, as defined by the 2012 California State University’s (CSU) Philanthropic Report, are funds to be retained and invested for income-producing purposes. Members of Divest Harvard believe higher education institutions serve as investments in the future of their students and their communities and should not be supporting … [Read more...] about Group seeks to withdraw investments from fossil fuels
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Fossil fuels affect climate change
By Yara Del Rio-Dominguez |Staff Writer| An international panel of climate scientists concluded that the Earth may enter an irreversible climate change if we don’t reduce our fossil fuel emissions. The International Panel of Climate Control (IPCC) released a report warning all countries of the need to reduce all emissions. “The burning of fossil fuels is affecting life on every continent and in the oceans and the window is closing rapidly for governments to avert catastrophic damage,” stated climate scientists in their report. We see some of the irreversible climate changes already in effect. Trapped gases have already contributed to some of the effects we see today, such as the … [Read more...] about Fossil fuels affect climate change