Oxbridge academics call for 'morally sound' university investments

Demand by hundreds of academics from Oxford and Cambridge universities for evidence-based investment policies could include divestment from fossil fuels

Hundreds of academics from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford are demanding their institutions adopt an "evidence-based, morally sound investment policy that serves the needs of the future", which could include divestment from fossil fuels.

The call is supported by Lord Deben, chair of the government's official climate change advisory committee; Prof David Mackay, former chief scientist at the Department of Energy and Climate Change; the incoming president of the Royal Society, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, and the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, as well as 300 other academics.