{"id":4649,"date":"2013-11-21T13:37:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T13:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2013-11-21T13:37:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T13:37:53","slug":"press-release-83-percent-of-participating-yale-students-vote-to-support-fossil-fuel-divestment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/press-release-83-percent-of-participating-yale-students-vote-to-support-fossil-fuel-divestment\/","title":{"rendered":"Press release: 83 Percent of Participating Yale Students Vote to Support Fossil Fuel Divestment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>November 21, 2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>83 Percent of Participating Yale Students Vote to Support Fossil Fuel Divestment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/files\/2013\/11\/Fossil-Free-Yale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4650\" alt=\"Fossil Free Yale\" src=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/files\/2013\/11\/Fossil-Free-Yale.jpg\" width=\"279\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>NEW HAVEN, CT. \u2013 Eighty-three percent of participating Yale students voted for Yale University to divest from the dirtiest fossil fuel companies, in a referendum held by the Yale College Council. Over 2,000 students participated in the referendum. \u00a0The results demonstrate student support for divestment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Yale College Council, the undergraduate student government, hosted the referendum from November 17 \u00a0to November 20. \u00a0Fossil Free Yale, the divestment campaign, was opposed by Students for a Strong Endowment, a student group formed following the announcement of the referendum. \u00a0Fossil Free Yale advocated a plan for divestment following guidelines on investor responsibility as outlined in the Yale-authored\u00a0<i>The Ethical Investor<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Fossil Free Yale proposes divestment from the companies contributing the most to climate change, while encouraging improvement in environmental performance. \u00a0Under Fossil Free Yale\u2019s plan, companies would first disclose their greenhouse gas emissions data. Yale would divest from non-reporting companies. \u00a0The proposal then advocates engagement with the dirtiest fossil fuel companies to decrease their contribution to climate change before divesting from the companies with the highest emissions intensities, measured by greenhouse gas emissions per unit energy produced. \u00a0Fossil Free Yale\u2019s proposal reflects conversations with the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, with which the group has worked since January 2013. \u00a0The Advisory Committee provides recommendations on ethical investing to the Yale Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Following the referendum, Fossil Free Yale plans to continue to engage with the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility. \u00a0Yale College Council will now offer their support to the campaign. \u00a0Fossil Free Yale will continue to work with Yale professors to review the proposal for divestment and, in particular, the metrics used to evaluate a company\u2019s contributions to climate change. \u00a0The campaign will also focus efforts on alumni, graduate student, faculty, and staff support.<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT: Hannah Nesser &lt;hannah.nesser@yale.edu&gt;<\/p>\n<p>For more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/fossilfreeyale.org\/\">http:\/\/fossilfreeyale.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 21, 2013 83 Percent of Participating Yale Students Vote to Support Fossil Fuel Divestment NEW HAVEN,<span class=\"text-cutoff\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}