Harvard $53 Billion Endowment Boosts Bets on ‘Climate Solutions’

Harvard University’s $53 billion endowment said it’s increasing investments in “climate solutions,” while still maintaining less than 2% of assets with indirect exposure to fossil-fuel holdings.

Investments related to addressing the climate crisis were approaching 1% of the fund as of June 2021, and more than doubled from a year earlier, Harvard said Thursday in its second annual report about how the endowment is making progress on the university’s goal to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

“We expect this trend to continue and accelerate going forward,” Harvard said in the climate report about its endowment, which is ...