Fossil fuel divestment: Advocates and adversaries in a new price landscape

Louise Yeung is Chief Climate Officer in the office of the New York City Comptroller. Yeung is tasked with tracking the city’s progress in meeting climate commitments, driving climate action and investments in the private sector, and bringing a climate justice lens to the city’s budget.

Hana Heineken is a Senior Attorney in the Climate and Energy Program at the Center for International Environmental Law. Previously, she held senior policy positions at the Rainforest Action Network and for Global Witness. She is a Master of Laws LLM candidate at Georgetown University Law Center and has a J.D. from Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law  and a B.A. in Political Science from Princeton.

Molly Ornati is an environmental activist who co-founded 350Brooklyn in 2015 and has worked on the TIAA-DIVEST! campaign for the past two years.

Dan Cohn is Global Energy Transition Researcher at IEEFA. His research focuses on protecting institutional investment funds from the volatility associated with global commodity prices and the fossil fuel industry.

Connor Chung is a student at Harvard University, where he studies the history and political economy of the climate crisis. As a coordinator of the Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard movement, he was involved in the campaign that convinced Harvard University to divest its $53 billion endowment from fossil fuels. Chung is also a former summer intern with IEEFA. His writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Nation, and Project Syndicate.