University of Colorado to Divest $270 million from fossil fuels

Students, faculty, and staff of the University of Colorado Boulder deserve to attend, work for, and be a part of a campus that is invested in them, not in their extinction. Students on this campus learn about global warming; professors, grad students, and researchers of this university spend their days educating and researching the implications of the climate crisis; and yet, the university still holds $270 million invested in fossil fuels. We demand better. Thus, we are, again, petitioning for an immediate and full divestment from fossil fuels. The lack of response from the Board of Regents up to this point means that we must be persistent in the fight for divestment. Our goal is to reach 18,577 signatures (a number equivalent to a majority of the 2023 enrolled students at CU Boulder). We do not want a "meeting" or "discussion," similar to that of the one held in the fall of 2023. We are petitioning, as is our fundamental right. As stakeholders of this university, we demand that you listen. Once we have reached the number of signatures equivalent to a majority (18,577), we will send this petition directly to the Board of Regents. At that juncture, any decision apart from an immediate and full divestment from fossil fuels will NOT be in “service” of or “representative” of a majority of students, thus making the Board of Regents active participants in our own extinction. To be clear, we demand a full and immediate divestment from fossil fuels.