An incomplete history:

• April 2025: Net-zero and climate planning research presented as a poster at the 2025 Science Atlantic Environment Conference.

• November 2024: At BOR meeting, Dr. Ian Sutherland "recommends that [the regents] consider a net-zero target" in report of first few months of presidency. No action is taken.

• October 2024: Meeting with new president, Dr. Ian Sutherland, about new climate action demands based on Net-Zero Pilot Study.

• October 2024: Publication of "Net-Zero Pilot Study Report" (see publication section)

• September 2024: Climate strike and die-out

• Summer 2024: Net-zero pilot study research, funded by MASU’s Green Initiatives Fund

• March 2024: Climate strike

• October 2023: Climate strike

• March-April 2023: Occupation of Centennial Hall

• March 2023: Climate strike

• September 2022: Climate strike

• March 2022: Climate strike

• December 2021: Protest holiday cards send to administration

• September 2021: Climate strike

• March 2021: Climate strike

• February 2021: Valentines Fundraiser for Black History Month

• October 2020: solidarity action with Mi’kmaq lobster fishers

• February 2020: Walkout for Wet’suwet’en

• February 2020: Climate Justice Panel

• February 2020: Protest during open house

• March 2019: First Climate Strike, in collaboration with high school and middle school

• November 2018: Divest MTA meets new MTA president (Jean-Paul Boudreau)

• February 2018: Divest members spoke at BOR meeting & protest tattooing outside the meeting

• March 2017: Occupy MTA (occupied quad, held events)

• February 2017: Over 40 students stage a "die-in" at Board of Regents meeting

• November 2016: Stop Kinder Morgan vigil held at MTA in conjunction with hundreds across the country

• October 2016: Divest MTA organizers attend Climate 101 Direct Action in Ottawa to protest the Kinder Morgan pipeline and were arrested alongside hundreds of comrades.

• February 2016: Board of Regents approves creation of subcommitte to evaluate responsible investment (this was not the subcommitte Divest had asked them to make)

• March 2015: MASU votes in favour of divestment

• December 2015: Divest MTA creates "The Case for Socially Responsible Investment Policy at Mount Allison University" (see publications section) and begin lobbying for socially responsible investment subcommittee

• June 2015: We> Tar sands sit-in in MP Dominiac LeBlanc's office, demanding to freeze tar sands expansion and take action on climate change

• April 2015: Report circulated through the Investment committee (a committee of the Board of Regents)

• Spring 2015: Report presented to administration, to little response or action

• 2015: Divest MTA publishes report, "The Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment at Mount Allison University" (see publications section)

• Fall 2013: Divest MTA formed from a class project, initially called Protest to Divest