New Group Seeks to Address Harvard University’s Failure to Act on the Climate Crisis
In response to widespread frustration in the Harvard community about the University’s inaction to climate change, a coalition of alumni, students and faculty have launched a campaign called Harvard Forward to elect five new members of the Board of Overseers with the goal of changing the University’s policies on divesting from fossil fuels and on committing more resources to climate initiatives.
Why This Matters: What makes this campaign interesting and different from previous ones (like South African divestiture in the ’80s) is that rather than protest the decisions of university leaders, this campaign is seeking the power to make the decisions themselves. The last time the university restructured its Board of Overseers was almost 150 years ago. It seems like its time to modernize it and addressing climate change is the perfect impetus.
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