Committee on Fossil Fuel Investment Principles

The Committee on Fossil Fuel Investment Principles will articulate a set of principles that can guide the university in applying its ethical investment policy to this industry.

The charge of the committee is as follows:

• Objective: To produce a report that recommends a set of principles to guide the CCIR in applying to fossil fuel producers Yale’s ethical investment policy set forth in The Ethical Investor. The committee should identify the activities, behaviors, and/or characteristics of fossil fuel producers that constitute “social injury” of such grave character that divestment is warranted.
• The committee, whose members include experts drawn from the faculty, may consult with other experts in relevant fields.
• The committee should collect and review input from the community.

The committee will begin its work immediately, meeting regularly with the goal of submitting its recommendations during the spring semester. The CCIR will then consider the recommendations in consultation with the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility. If accepted, the principles will serve as the basis for the CCIR’s policy on divestment from fossil fuel producers in keeping with The Ethical Investor.

The committee has created a webform to collect input and recommendations.