Some universities are working to cut their carbon emissions as a way to fight climate change, but we've learned many of those same schools still have financial ties to the oil and gas industry.
, a global group with a mandate of ensuring energy security, in 2021 called for an end to investment in new oil and rapid transition to renewable energy sources.
The University of Texas system declined to be interviewed for this story and provided this statement: "So that little sliver has to become the full thing. It has to become 100% and they need to move dramatically away from using that land to worsen the climate crisis, to using that land to make a profit in helping lead us down this path of clean energy," he said. University research and fossil fuel donations
called the Coalition for a True School of Sustainability and protested last year's ribbon-cutting celebration at Stanford's Doerr School. Protesters at Stanford believe their efforts have led to a more open dialogue with the university about the funding of research through donations from fossil fuel companies.What the Stanford activists want is a university ban on those donations, like the policy Princeton University in New Jersey was the first and only university to implement in 2022. Princeton created a list of 90 fossil fuel companies from which it will not accept donations.
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