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Al Gore Calls on His Alma Mater Harvard to Divest From Fossil Fuels
A Harvard University building in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said Harvard University should divest its $39 billion endowment of fossil-fuel investments.
“Fossil fuels can no longer compete,” Gore, who graduated from Harvard 50 years ago, said in comments to students at the school’s 2019 Class Day ceremony on Wednesday. “The largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, in Norway, financed completely by oil and gas revenues, has started divesting from fossil fuels, and so should Harvard University.”