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  • Shareholder action forces oil giant Exxon to increase climate disclosures

    12 December 2017

    ExxonMobil is to start publishing reports on how policies to reduce global warming affect its profits, a move which marks a major victory for shareholder action on climate change, according to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

  • Trillion-dollar wealth fund to consider dropping oil and gas investment

    20 November 2017

    Norway's $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund is to consider divesting its holdings in oil and gas because of the risk fossil fuels pose to its portfolio.

  • Growing shareholder support for climate action still "a work in progress"

    06 November 2017

    Shareholder support for climate risk initiatives has surged in 2017 but some of the world's largest asset managers have only just started taking action, according to a report by 50/50 Climate Project.

  • Asset manager plans shareholder resolutions on methane

    04 October 2017

    An engagement initiative on methane has been launched, targeting the 2018 proxy voting season.

  • Major investors step up support for climate-risk resolutions

    02 October 2017

    Institutional investor support for shareholder resolutions on climate-related risks is at a turning point, according to UK non-profit ShareAction.

  • UK pension scheme NEST divests £27.2m from high carbon companies

    11 September 2017

    The UK's national workplace pension provider has divested £27.2 million from companies that it deems are not adequately adapting to a low-carbon economy, including Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell, it has said.

  • US asset owners are waking up to climate change

    31 July 2017

    There is increasing evidence that US investors are factoring climate change into their investment decisions, argues Meg Voorhes

  • Comment: There is no 'Trump dump' for environmental finance

    10 July 2017

    President Donald Trump reaffirmed his decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement at this weekend's G20 meeting in Hamburg.

  • Personality of the year 2017: Thomas DiNapoli

    30 June 2017

    New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has been one of the most influential investor voices on climate change in recent years.

  • Oil & gas companies risk $2.3trn in stranded assets

    21 June 2017

    $2.3 trillion of future upstream investments by 69 oil & gas companies is at risk of becoming stranded assets, according to a new report by Carbon Tracker Initiative and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).