Timeline

What we've accomplished so far:

September 21, 2014
90 Penn students participated in the People's Climate March in New York City, along with 400,000 marchers, at the same time as the UN climate change summit.

September 25, 2014
Building on PCM's momentum of climate justice, Fossil Free Penn met for the first time and established demands for our own university.

October 28, 2014
Penn students responded to President Gutmann's launch of Climate Action Plan 2.0.

December 10, 2014
We submitted the petition for undergraduate referendum to the Nominations & Elections Committee according to the Fair Practices Code. The referendum reached more than 650 signatures.

February 23-27, 2015
The undergraduate referendum passed with more than double the votes needed. 33% of undergraduates voted with 87.8% favoring. (Only 15% of undergraduates with 50% favoring needed)

Referendum Results

October 28, 2015
We held a rally outside of the ARCH building with powerful speakers. Then, we marched over to Houston Hall for a silent protest outside a University Council meeting, encouraging dialogue about divestment in preparation for submission of the divestment proposal.

November 2, 2015
FFP's fossil fuel divestment proposal is submitted to the University Council Steering Committee, in accordance with the official Guidelines and Procedures to consider divestment proposals.

November 11, 2015
The University Council Steering Committee debated and accepted the divestment proposal and makes plans to create the Ad Hoc committee on divestment, as charged by the Trustees in the procedures.

December 2, 2015
We held a rally on College Green before heading over to the University Council Open Forum, where FFP members and supporters spoke promoting divestment. At the Open Forum, Wharton Graduate alumnus ('89) Brad Goz spoke about the financial benefits of fossil fuel divestment.