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UQ Climate for Change

Address: The University of Queensland 4072 St Lucia, QLD, Australia

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25.01.2022 TOMORROW TOMORROW TOMORROW Climate Impacts Parade Join the global movement to stop investing in fossil fuels and start investing in a SAFE CLIMATE. ... https://www.facebook.com/events/828707930637193/

21.01.2022 Look at that awesome team after Campus X last week ! Great achievment for our campaign so far, let's keep challenging UQ's ideas !

21.01.2022 UN say's no more coal ...

18.01.2022 Our friends from the FAIR TRADE COLLECTIVE are out of the BSL library today, selling incredibly cheap and incredibly fair trade coffee and teas ! Just do not miss it, the stalls and the people are incredible ! IT IS NOW !

15.01.2022 This is legendary !

15.01.2022 The University of Edinburgh at the other side of the world failed to divest yesterday. Following a long 3 year campaign by our friends at People & Planet Edinburgh, the university chose a strategy of engagement as a shareholder and a case-by-case approach to fossil fuel investment! Along with the the refusal of several U.S. universities, this follows a historic path which during the anti-apartheid movement saw several universities not succumbing to the moral pressure to dives...t from South African operation. We call on all the Fossil Free movements to not be disappointed by these decisions and to keep pushing. We know one way or another that we are all together changing the rationale on climate action and that's what our world needs. We need young people to continue stepping up for their future and that's what the divestment movement is doing on massive scales! And we know what happens next, these universities in the anti-apartheid movement eventually divested a few years later (1986). Keep faith People & Planet Edinburgh, keep pushing for us! We will keep pushing for you!

09.01.2022 UQ Business school refusing to have a speaker with a sustainable view at its leadership symposium...What is leadership for you in a carbon constrained world ?

09.01.2022 Wooopooooo ! John Quiggin smashing it !

08.01.2022 Climate Angels ! Help UQ to divest from fossil fuels !

08.01.2022 Hi Friends, Followinf the MArket Day, our amigos at Fossil Free UQ are having a Welcome Picnic next week for you to know more about divestment and join the team if you want to !

07.01.2022 UQ it is time to say to our university we do not want dangerous environmental relationship ! Stand up to Adani and the reef-threatening plans of their coal expansion.

07.01.2022 Good words from our Fossil Free UQ campaign ! What exactly is this "journey to change" that UQ is offering?

06.01.2022 ON TODAY 12PM GREAT COURT https://www.facebook.com/events/828707930637193/

01.01.2022 This week members of Fossil Free UQ were fortunate enough to attend the UQ Student Summit, where one of our representatives questioned Vice-Chancellor Høj about... divestment. The crux of our question was this - When will our university (that so strongly promotes itself as a leader in sustainability) demonstrate a genuine commitment to environmental sustainability by divesting from fossil fuels? Vice-Chancellor Høj - evidently a very intelligent, handsome and well-paid fellow - conceded that he does in fact believe climate change exists, and then proceeded to take us on an 8-minute oratorical journey outlining why The University of Queensland will not divest from fossil fuels. Special mentions went to UQ's shiny new solar array, continued refusal to provide ANY transparency with regard to our university's investment portfolio, insistence that fossil fuels are integral to achieving returns (simply not true) AND lifting people out of poverty (because climate change certainly will not create any poverty), as well as the assurance that the human race will be just fine continuing to emit CO2 since we need it for photosynthesis (wut) What Vice-Chancellor's Høj's response can be boiled down to is N.O - no our university will not lead the way, no our university will not be forward-thinking in its investment strategy and no it will not publicly and proudly prioritise its students and the planet over profit and corporate power. Vice-Chancellor Høj - if we are to have any hope of preserving the ecology of our planet, we cannot pick and choose where to be sustainable - this "journey to change" you offer leads nowhere on a dead earth. Expect to hear more on this friends, we are only just beginning.