The Economic Case for Divestment & Re-investment at McMaster

On July 6 a group from Macgreeninvest (MGI) met online with McMaster's newly appointed President, David Farrar, and Roger Couldrey, Vice-President, Office of Administration, to put the case for McMaster divesting its endowment fund from fossil fuels and re-investing the money in renewable green energy to tackle the climate crisis.

MGI submitted a detailed explanation outlining the feasibility of these two goals:


https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSxETkrusv1H6dnrD7uu3-z1Kvi3oerYiOccVDWL4qdfMaqqGUNmHDmZtVg1FybigdOBy7yh1wpYtgc/pub

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