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Forum on Universities and the Climate Crisis: Financial Implications of Fossil Fuel Divestment

February 12, 2015 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Join several of the leading players evaluating and affecting the debate on fossil fuel divestment by universities for a forum at Boston University on Thursday evening, February 12th:

  • Senator Ben Downing, Join Committee on Telecommunication, Utilities and Energy, Chair
    Divesting the Commonwealth’s public pension system from holdings in fossil fuel companies.
  • Lisa Goldberg, Aperio Group, Director of Research; University of California Berkeley Center for Risk Management Research, Research Director
    Quantifying the risk of fossil fuel divestment.
  • Bob Massie, Global Reporting Initiative, Co-Founder
    Financial risks of stranded assets and divestment as an instruments of social change.
  • Leslie Samuelrich, Green Century Capital Management, President
    How to invest fossil-fuel free.

THe forum will be held at 7:00 pm in Room B01 of the Life Science & Engineering Building at 24 Cummington Street. (BU East MBTA stop)

The forum is organized by DivestBU Faculty. Contact Ed Loechler.

Forum on Universities and the Climate Crisis: Financial Implications of Fossil Fuel Divestment
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February 12, 2015
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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