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Tag: Divestment
News Roundup
Creighton University Joins Growing List of Schools Divesting From Fossil Fuels
Omaha’s Creighton University will phase out all investments in the fossil fuel industry from its $587 million endowment within the next 10 years. Instead it will channel investments toward sustainable energy, reports the National Catholic Reporter. The decision comes more than two years after students began pressuring the Jesuit university to join the growing list […]
January 7, 2021
News Roundup
Georgetown Joins List of Schools Divesting from Fossil Fuel Companies
Amid pressure from student activists, Georgetown University announced it will stop investing its endowment funding in fossil fuel companies and will withdraw all previous investments in those firms. The Jesuit school cited Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, which called for the church to combat climate change, as one of its reasons for divesting. “The […]
February 10, 2020
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