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Dutch Pension Giant PFZW Divests 98% of Oil and Gas Companies over Lack of Climate Action

ESG Today

In a blog post announcing the divestments, PFZW described the remaining companies as “fully committed to the transition from fossil energy to renewable energy or are currently already producing mainly energy with a low carbon footprint.”

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Time to re-invigorate this blog, what posts will cover

Tobias Webb

Dear reader, I’ve been writing ‘blog’ posts on and off, for about 15 years. I let the blog drift for a while and the emailing of posts function stopped working. If you decide to stay on the list, here’s a bit more about what you’ll get in terms of posts from the blog. in the last 6-12 months.

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Responsible-investing trailblazer awarded Order of Canada

Corporate Knights

Church investors dared to come to annual meetings to ask questions, or even worse, church investors filed shareholder proposals,” she wrote in a 2018 blog about her early work. EE: The debate about divestment versus engagement in fossil fuels is probably more heated now than ever. Both divestment and shareholder action have a role.

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To Meet Net Zero, Prioritize ESG Laggards

3BL Media

When a responsible investor sells – or divests – from companies that are low-performing on ESG metrics, this provides an opportunity for an indiscriminate investor to buy the security in their place. Visit www.brandywineglobal.com and the Firm’s industry-leading Around the Curve blog. It potentially exacerbates it.

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Take Five: Immediately and Gradually

Chris Hall

As well as outlining the negative consequences of waiting, an accompanying blog noted the costs will be highest for fossil-fuel exporters and energy-intensive emerging market economies, requiring countries to “cooperate more on finance and technology needed to reduce costs – and share more of the required know-how”.

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What is Ethical Consumerism?

Steven Mintz

In addition to divesting from unethical stocks, you can make investments in companies that make a positive change in a practice called  impact investing. Environment, I want to point out that my "Workplace Ethics Advice" blog was rated #5 in the list of the 20th best blogs dealing with CSR.

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From Russia in Haste

Chris Hall

Meanwhile in the asset management sector, Legal & General Investment Management said it would divest from Russian sovereign debt and the manager has reduced total exposure to 0.1% of AUM or £1.3 billion. . of AUM. .