Students, staff and alumni at the University of Queensland are calling for the university to divest from fossil fuels and put the future of their students above the interests of big polluters.
A protest took place outside of a UQ Senate meeting last night.
The Australian Youth Climate Coalition say it is crucial world-leading institutions like UQ take a stand for climate action, following the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report detailing the climate catastrophe if global warming exceeds 1.5 degrees.