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UN Climate Chief Joins Alumni Calling on Swarthmore to Divest from Fossil Fuels

UN Climate Chief Joins Alumni Calling on Swarthmore to Divest from Fossil Fuels

by The Daily Eye Team March 27 2015, 2:04 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 30 secs

Christiana Figueres calls on Swarthmore College in a letter to ‘play its part in history’ and rid its investments of fossil fuels that cause climate change  The United Nations climate chief appealed to her alma mater, Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, to withdraw from fossil fuels, in an important symbolic show of support for the campus divestment campaign. A group of protesters occupied Swarthmore’s administrative office last week to demand the university return to negotiations on fossil fuel divestment. The administrative board have since agreed to put divestment on the agenda their May meeting.

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