Student activism, including on divestment on fossil fuels, is an important part of UBC’s climate emergency story. Climate Justice UBC, a student group, prepared and produced this video to tell the story of UBC’s fossil fuel divestment from their perspective.
UBC’s Climate Emergency Declaration in December 2019 included a direction to the Climate Emergency Advisory Committee to prepare a public report to define the pillars of our climate emergency response – including divestment. Specifically, the declaration asked for, “concrete commitments to move towards full divestment from fossil fuels within UBC’s controlled endowments.”
One of the priority areas identified in the resulting Climate Emergency Task Force Report is to, “Demonstrate Institutional Leadership on Climate Justice”, and the report makes a number of recommendations on divestment. This report is now being implemented across the University, and will be regularly reviewed by the UBC Board of Governors Sustainability and Climate Action Committee whose mandate includes responsible investment at UBC.
