Put divestment on the agenda

From September 30th to October 2nd, Vice-Chancellors, University Presidents and other higher education heavy-weights will come together for the World Academic Summit at the University of Melbourne. But right now - something huge is missing from the agenda -- climate change.

University students are being taught everyday about the devastating impacts of climate change, many without realising that their own education is linked to the very industry most responsible for the looming climate catastrophe.

Universities all over the world are being called upon to take real climate action by pulling their investments out of its main cause --the fossil fuel industry. Half of the speakers at the upcoming World Academic Summit are from universities with divestment campaigns active on their campuses.

Surely climate change and divestment deserve to be on the agenda of the World Academic Summit?

Call on Academic Summit organisers to put climate change and divestment from fossil fuels on the agenda.

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Dear World Academic Summit Organisers,

I am writing to request that you put climate change and fossil fuel divestment on the agenda of the upcoming Times Higher Education World Academic Summit.
Universities are leaders in climate change research, policy and solutions. For a large number of leading universities, sustainability and climate change is a core focus of their degrees. More and more, universities are positioning themselves as social actors with a mandate to act upon the greatest challenge of our time -- climate change.

Continuing to invest in companies whose business models guarantee runaway climate change runs counter to this. And that's why the fossil fuel divestment campaign has grown to such prominence on campuses around the world. Half of the speakers on your program come from universities with fossil fuel divestment campaigns active on their campuses.

Considering how important climate change and fossil fuel divestment are to universities, it is critical that they are included on the Summit Agenda.

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