This motion, supported by 84 professors, targets all companies developing new fossil fuel infrastructures, exploring new oil or gas fields, or belonging to an anti-climate lobby: “while making donations to Cambridge University, fossil fuel companies continue to pay dues, some in excess of $10 million a year, to industry lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute, which promote fossil fuel expansion and lobby against climate regulations.”
British media outlet The Guardian reports that the university received almost £14 million from oil and gas companies between 2017 and 2021. Along with Imperial College London, it is one of the English universities most supported by the oil industry.
