Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 36.94
Liaison David Greenwood
Submission Date Nov. 12, 2014
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Lakehead University
PA-14: Sustainable Investment

Status Score Responsible Party
-- 0.00 / 4.00 Ledah McKellar
Research Assistant
Centre for Place and Sustainability Studies

This credit was marked as Not Pursuing so Reporting Fields will not be displayed.

At the time of this assessment, the Centre for Place and Sustainability Studies place a formal request to the Finance and Operations Committee requesting the information in this credit. This request is still in review.

Although at an institutional level Lakehead is not currently assessing their investment in fossil fuels, there is an active campaign run by students and faculty on campus that is part of the larger campaign Fossil Free. Their campaign is called Fossil Free Lakehead and they have a petition arguing for the following:

“Because it is unconscionable to pay for our education with investments that will condemn the planet to climate disaster, we call on Lakehead University to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil-fuel companies, and to divest within five years from direct ownership and from any commingled funds that include fossil-fuel public equities and corporate bonds.”

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fossil-Free-Lakehead/344165165695928

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