Divestment: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
'''Divestment | '''Divestment''' '''is intentionally removing investments from a particular company, industry, or sector. For example, a company can divest from the fossil fuel industry and extractivism in favour of moving towards a regenerative economy. In the university context, this means selling the university’s stocks, bonds, and other forms of invested funds in a particular industry, and foregoing future investments in that industry - ''Divest Canada Coalition <ref>https://www.divestcanada.ca/what-is-divestment/</ref> , adapted by Michelle Xie <ref>https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HC35f2kDXc8cgLYWc9_oUZmINoTfP3_I</ref> | ||
Revision as of 23:04, 22 August 2022
'Divestment is intentionally removing investments from a particular company, industry, or sector. For example, a company can divest from the fossil fuel industry and extractivism in favour of moving towards a regenerative economy. In the university context, this means selling the university’s stocks, bonds, and other forms of invested funds in a particular industry, and foregoing future investments in that industry - Divest Canada Coalition [1] , adapted by Michelle Xie [2]
If you have any suggested revisions or additional resources to share related to the above content, please email them to kenzie@lehub.ca.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.