Canadian Campus Fossil Fuel Divestment Successes

The exact divestment commitment, timeline, and progress toward implementation is specific to each case:

Université Laval — Quebec City, Quebec — February 2017

• Laval divesting from fossil fuels

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) — Montréal, Quebec — November 2017

• Fondation de l’UQAM quietly divests from fossil fuels

Concordia — Montréal, Quebec — November 2019

• Concordia and UBC commit to full divestment

The University of British Columbia (UBC) — Vancouver, British Columbia — December 2019

• Concordia and UBC commit to full divestment

University of Guelph — Guelph, Ontario — April 2020

• Guelph divests

Lakehead University — Thunder Bay, Ontario — November 2020

• Lakehead commits to divestment

The University of Victoria (UVic) — Victoria, British Columbia — February 2021

• UVic’s partial divestment

The University of Waterloo — Waterloo, Ontario — June 2021

• Waterloo commits to divestment

Last updated: 2021-06-02