The Green Investor

How Student Activists Pushed Harvard to Divest from Fossil Fuels


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Divest Harvard, a student-led activist organization at Harvard University, won a major victory in 2021 by convincing its trustees to wind down its investments in the fossil fuel industry through its $53 billion endowment. Connor Chung, a junior at Harvard, and one of the main organizers of Divest Harvard, joins the show to explain how they did it, and what else it wants from the university. Plus, the SEC has finally issued a proposal that would make climate risks a mandatory component of public company filings. We unpack the proposal, and what could come next.

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