The University students have finally broken through to the Board of Trustees. The Board has accepted to change its investment placement of $4.3 billion dollars towards something other than fossil fuels. The Board plans on looking over the “endowment’s environmental, social, and governance criteria” at the following meeting taking place in March. They also determined the University would begin to support carbon neutrality by the year 2037. This progress has come from the students protesting and the fact the school has a new SRI process. The SRI process enables the Chancellor to consider investment exclusion requests from students like the divestment of fossil fuels.
Since the Board has brought the idea of achieving carbon neutrality, they place the responsiblity on the University Admin to take further actions. There is to be a Carbon Council that designs and manages the carbon neutrality plan. From this requirement, the Sustainability Committee volunteered to become apart of the council and to update its Sustainability Plan for the new deadline of 2037.
