The Students of Divest Carleton

Letter to the Chairs of the Board of Trustees and its Investment Committee, from Divest Carleton: continue to divest from fossil fuel holdings

By The Students of Divest Carleton on January 17, 2020

Dear Mr. Weitz and Mr. Wender: We were recently heartened to learn that, as of September 30, 2019, Carleton no longer holds any direct public equity stocks in fossil fuel companies. This marks a significant change in Carleton’s portfolio. Five years ago, Carleton was directly invested in nine major fossil…

Divest Carleton responds to the trustees’ recent decision

By The Students of Divest Carleton on January 16, 2016

Dear Carleton Board of Trustees, We, the students of Divest Carleton, are writing to you to express our dissatisfaction with your response to the recommendation to divest from fossil fuels made in September by the Carleton Responsible Investment Committee (CRIC)*. First, let us acknowledge the steps Carleton has taken toward…