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Is Climate Action 100+ pushing hard enough?
19 July 2019The heavyweight investor engagement initiative has won some victories with fossil fuel giants. But should it be demanding more, asks Elena K Johansson.
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Oil & gas companies 'jeopardise shareholder returns by rewarding executives for chasing growth'
14 February 2019Shareholder returns are at risk from remuneration schemes that incentivise executives at oil and gas companies to chase volume growth, a report argues.
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People Moves: Columbia Threadneedle, Natixis, NBIM, BMO Capital Markets, Hong Kong Green Finance Association, FRC, Pattern Energy and NextEra Energy Partners
04 January 2019Columbia Threadneedle boosts responsible investment team
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Investors agree with BP - scenario analysis can be confusing!
17 October 2018Climate scenario analysis - as recommended by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) - can be "infinitely confusing", Environmental Finance's Green Equities conference heard.
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Divest from oil and gas by 2023, £12bn Church of England instructed
09 July 2018The Church of England has agreed to divest from oil and gas firms by 2023 unless they can demonstrate sufficient efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change.
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ABP, ERAFP, and First State Super among scenario analysis leaders
15 June 2018Many leading global asset owners have already begun to perform scenario analysis and apply key findings to their climate strategies, a report by the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) has found.
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Rio Tinto shareholders in largest ever vote for climate resolution
03 May 2018Investors with a combined $4 billion of shares in Rio Tinto have recorded the largest vote for a climate change-related resolution, without board support, in Australian corporate history.
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Investors wake up to collective engagement clout
26 March 2018Climate-related resolutions at Exxon and Shell garnered the support of the world's largest investors. Now asset managers and owners are massing together to move entire sectors, writes Michael Hurley.
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TPI hails watershed moment for investors in oil and gas
21 March 2018A Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) study of disclosures by Shell, Total and Petrobras can "fundamentally change the game" for investors hoping to pressure oil majors into reducing their carbon emissions.
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50 names to be added to Climate Action 100+ engagement hit list
21 February 201850 more corporates are to be added to the $28 trillion Climate Action 100+ initiative's list of targets for climate-related engagement.