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March 29, 2022

Climate Research Shouldn’t Be Funded by Fossil Fuel Companies

By Lisa Herforth-Hebbert

The oil and gas industry uses universities to influence environmental policy. Here’s how we fight back.

By Ilana Cohen and Jake Lowe

Climate change activists during a Harvard vs. Yale game in 2019. (Erick W. Rasco / Getty Images)


As student organizers, we’ve seen the power of divestment come to bear by helping secure historic commitments from our universities—including the world’s richest school, Harvard​​—to sever their endowments from the companies driving climate breakdown.

Yet at the same time that our universities have taken a crucial step toward climate leadership, they continue to engage in repugnant hypocrisy that undermines such progress: raking in fossil fuel funds for the critical climate-change-related research on which our futures depend. To end our universities’ sponsorship of a deadly core business model once and for all, we need a new strategy to expose and dismantle these toxic ties by calling for fossil-free climate research.

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