Fossil Free Research
Cut fossil fuel money out of university research.
For decades, fossil fuel companies have known their products would cause climate destruction—Shell’s own reports from the 1970s predicted “major climatic changes.” Even as record-breaking heat, abnormal storms, and mass displacement became reality, these companies doubled down on disinformation and deregulation to protect profits.
Decades of deception
The fossil fuel industry leverages the prestige and credibility of our elite institutions to make their biased reports believable. So while poisoning our planet, these companies also poisoned our schools. They took over our centers of learning and research and used them to their advantage, spreading their toxic influence all over our academic processes. They then used the reports they created to influence public policy and law, strategically pushing for ways to keep business as usual untouched. All while wreaking havoc on the planet.
Why Fossil Free Research matters
Students and faculty want to make their universities sites of innovation and breeding grounds for real climate solutions. We want to create the future we want and deserve, not help destroy it. So we are kicking Big Oil out of schools.
Expose conflicts of interest
Uncover hidden contracts and gifts so polluters can no longer hijack academic credibility or steer research.
Protect academic integrity
Build ironclad firewall policies so departments cannot be used as PR arms for the very corporations fueling the crisis.
Win enforceable policies
Organize trustees, faculty, and students to pass binding fossil-free funding rules that outlast any single administrator.
What we've already exposed
Fossil Free Research is the flagship campaign of Campus Climate Network. Already, we’ve uncovered millions of dollars in research funding at our universities and won Fossil Free Research policies among individual faculty members, academic departments, at centers and institutes, and university-wide. Your school could be next.