All fossil fuels articles – Page 2
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PFZW sells another 78 oil and gas firms
The move is part of the Dutch healthcare scheme’s engagement programme with fossil fuel companies
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Opinion Pieces
Australia: Super funds face the future of fossil fuels
After a year when fossil fuel stocks outperformed all other shares, Australian super funds face a conundrum – to buy, hold or sell?
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IPE Conference: Declaring war on climate change – with new law on ‘carbon takeback’
ESG policies and renewables strategies not enough to get to net zero
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PME adapts fossil fuel exclusion policy after TV report
The fund claimed last year it had sold all its investments in fossil fuels, but had used exclusion criteria that were not stringent enough, PME has admitted
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Net-zero-aligned investment in fossil fuels
Incentivising carbon capture would free institutional investors from having to make decisions about the climate
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Danish teachers’ pension fund to shed €269m of fossil equities
Lærernes Pension tightens criteria for fossil fuel exclusions, after setting 2050 net-zero goal in June
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Net zero strategies must include proxy voting commitments, verification, UN says
The guidance on credible net zero transition plans calls for the creation of a ‘global taskforce on net zero regulation’
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PFZW sells €470m worth of investments in 114 oil and gas companies
The companies that were sold had failed to formulate goals to reduce carbon emissions
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The future of net zero: banks rethink climate commitments
GFANZ is not the only body trying to calm down spooked investor
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Al Gore says sustainability momentum must speed up
Generation Investment Management says in sixth annual report on sustainability trends that progress is fragile given stormy political, economic situation
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SNS Reaal fund ditches EM fossil fuel producers
The move is part of the €4.2bn pension fund switch from mostly passive to fully active management in EM equities
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GFANZ outlines phaseout of high-emitting assets as net-zero approach
… as UN-backed Race to Zero campaign ‘throws down the gaunlet’ on fossil fuel exit
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AP7 dumps 14 more coal and oil sands firms without transition plans
Latest blacklistings follow engagement with the companies and analysis
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UK’s CEPB drops CA100+ Shell co-lead in engagement focus switch
Pension fund also reports on net-zero progress, highlights limits of single climate measures
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PFZW sells 24 companies over ESG failures
The announcement is part of a new transparency drive by the Dutch healthcare scheme
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Ircantec exits dozen companies as new climate policy kicks in
Divested companies include Anglo American, BP, Mitsubishi, and Repsol
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Dutch institutional investors require oil and gas firms to decarbonise
The group, which includes PGGM and MN, calls on other international investors to endorse statement
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Danish pension funds defend themselves after €6bn fossils accusation
ActionAid: “Pension companies can’t both call themselves sustainable and invest in fossil fuel expansion”
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Swiss parliamentary committee waters down plan to reach net-zero emissions
Committee rejects the demand to ban fossil fuels without exceptions
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PFZW gives fossil fuel companies two years to show Paris alignment
The €278bn Dutch pension fund previously said it would stick with fossil fuel companies, with intensified engagement efforts