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UVic takes big step toward fossil fuel divestment
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Image: An oil sands project in Alberta UVic takes a big step toward fossil fuel divestment, but there’s still a UVic endowment fund of $440 million that is invested in fossil fuels. Go to story... -
But there’s still a UVic endowment fund of $440 million that is invested in fossil fuels. James Rowe, Jeff Corntassel and Emily Lowan IN A BREAKTHROUGH for the fossil fuel divestment movement, the University of Victoria announced this week that it planned to fully divest one of its two primary investment funds—a $256 million working capital fund managed by its board of governors—from fossil fuels. With this decision, the University of Victoria joins other Canadian universities that have divested for a mixture of financial, moral, and reputational reasons, namely, Guelph,
