We are happy to relate that the launch was very successful, with over 100 people attending. Students, academic staff and alumni were well-represented at the event and nearly 30 members of the university community signed up for a working group which has since had several meetings.

Please sign our petition, now online, calling on UCT to divest from fossil fuels and invest in sustainable energy!

There is a global climate summit in New York on 23 September organised by the UN.

Great news from Australia: Sydney University has frozen investment in coal.

Following our successful UCT campaign launch, we've formed a Fossil Free UCT working group.

We'll post more details and information over the next few days, but for the meantime, we're very happy to report that our launch event for Fossil Free UCT at the university last night felt like a great success.

Two days to go before our campaign launch at UCT on 30 July (17h30, Leslie Social Sciences 1A)

It is the world’s wealthiest countries and people who have benefited most from the use of fossil fuels, and have contributed most to global warming.

The launch event for the UCT fossil fuel divestment campaign will be on 30 July, from 5.30-7pm, in Leslie Social Sciences 1A.

A representative of Go Fossil Free South Africa addressed student delegates from around the world on the subject of fossil fuel divestment during the World Student Environment Network 2014 Global Summit in Stellenbosch.

Speaking at length about climate change at a commencement address at the University of California at Irvine, on 14 June, US president Barack Obama made the following remarks…

We are planning to launch our UCT divestment campaign on campus on 30 July 2014, at 17h30. Details to follow...

What kind of future do you like to imagine for yourself? One of personal success in a secure, prosperous world?

A powerful statement from faculty at Harvard, calling for divestment (read it in full here):

Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse.

“We write in order to enquire about UCT’s investment policies and practices in relation to those extractive industries that are contributing to climate change.”