Climate change is here, and the Harvard Corporation has a duty to address it—but don’t take our word for it. On this page you’ll find links to evidence about the reality of global warming and the Harvard Corporation’s obligations. These are the exhibits referenced in our complaint. A correspondence chart is at the bottom of the page.
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change summary of the greenhouse effect
- The newly released IPCC synthesis report, representing the latest climate science
- A Center for American progress report on the correlation between climate change and the Arab Spring
- A study of the lifetime of anthropogenic CO2
- James Hansen and other scientists on the potential carbon tipping point
- An EPA description of the severity of the climate crisis
- The Copenhagen Diagnosis summary of recent climate science
- Harvard’s 1650 Charter
- The Massachusetts Constitution articles on Harvard College
- President Faust’s letter recognizing a connection between the Harvard Corporation’s investments and its duty to confront climate change
- Harvard Management Company’s most recent SEC filing
- The Institutional Master Plan for Harvard’s Allston Campus, showing the impending danger of sea level rise
- A study by the Stranded Assets Programme at the University of Oxford demonstrating the effectiveness of divestment campaigns
- A timeline of the Harvard Corporation’s divestment from apartheid, tobacco, and genocide in Darfur
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu‘s op-ed in support of divestment
- An article supporting divestment by UN climate chief Christiana Figueres
- A call by ExxonMobil shareholders to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Nobel Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore’s call for Harvard to divest
- Faculty support for divestment
- The many institutions and municipalities that have already divested from fossil fuels
- Massachusetts precedent for special interest standing to bring enforcement of charity claims
- An article explaining how fossil fuel companies exploit the Harvard name to spread scientific falsehoods
- A look into influence of fossil fuel money in preventing energy reform
- The Harvard Management Company’s announcement of a new VP for sustainable investing
- The Harvard Corporation’s recognition of the relationship between its investments and climate change when it signed onto the UNPRI
A correspondence list of our exhibits.