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CA100+ targets lobbying, implementing TCFD and net zero emissions
03 October 2019Climate Action (CA) 100+ has set out its engagement priorities, over the coming months, in its first initiative progress report for 161 'focus companies'.
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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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Exxon and other laggards excluded from LGIM Future World Funds
21 June 2019Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has excluded more climate change laggards from its Future World Funds range after they failed to respond to its engagement programme.
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Aegon supports Follow This climate resolutions
13 May 2019Dutch insurer Aegon has announced its support for nine climate resolutions at four major oil firms' annual general meetings (AGMs).
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Equinor bows to investor pressure of Climate Action 100+
25 April 2019Equinor has become the latest oil and gas company to bow to investor pressure to strengthen its climate targets.
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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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EU Carbon market update, 14 January 2019
14 January 2019EUA prices slid in another tumultuous week, says Louis Redshaw.
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Investors pressure oil and gas companies to improve methane disclosures
22 October 2018Investor heavyweights Robeco and California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) have thrown their weight behind an initiative urging oil and gas companies to improve their disclosure of methane emissions.
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World’s largest sovereign wealth fund urged not to pursue divestment
24 August 2018Divestment of the oil and gas stocks in the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) “is not an effective insurance against a permanent decline in oil prices” and the stocks only contribute marginally to Norway’s oil price risk, according to a committee set up to explore the issue.
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Equinor buys energy trading company in move toward cleaner fuels
06 July 2018Oil and gas company Equinor has acquired power and gas trader Danske Commodities (DC), as it looks to shift its business model toward cleaner fuels.