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"The proportion of global universities that have said they will divest from
carbon-intensive energy companies is approaching two-thirds, a likely “tipping
point” for the sector, but progress is more rapid in some regions than in
others.
Data drawn from the
Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2024 indicate that
64 per cent of participating institutions reported having policies to withdraw
from such investments, up from 44 per cent in 2020.
Some of the steepest increases have been seen in North America, where six in 10
universities now report having divestment policies, up from 31 per cent four
years previously. A similar rate of growth, albeit from a lower base, is
evident from data for the US alone, where the shift has been from 21 per cent
to 52 per cent.
Rapid growth has also been reported across Asia, where 66 per cent of
institutions now have policies on divestment, up from 42 per cent in 2020. In
2020, just 31 per cent of Indian participants had divestment policies, but that
has now risen to 70 per cent, while the improvement in Japan has been from 13
per cent to 49 per cent. One of the strongest performers is Taiwan, where 81
per cent of institutions now have plans to divest, up from half four years ago.
But these sectors continue to lag behind the strongest performers, primarily
universities in Oceania, 91 per cent of which have divestment policies,
including 94 per cent of Australian participants. They have been ahead of the
curve since the launch of the
Impact Rankings, which assesses universities’
performance against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and which
is led by Western Sydney University for the third year in a row. One metric
measures whether a university has a policy on fossil fuel divestment, notably
from coal and oil."
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