2016 Climate Change Divestment 
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 27, 2023
Divesting from fossil fuels isn’t just good for the planet. billion in returns over the last 10 years by not divesting from fossil fuels. In 2016, Corporate Knights analysis showed that the New York State Common Retirement Fund lost at least US$5.3 It can be good for financial returns, too.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 13, 2020
For years, seven of the top 10 companies on the Dow Jones Index were oil companies until 2016 when most fell out of the top 10, leaving only Exxon. This helps explain why more than $11 trillion have been divested from fossil ownership, even before the University of California announced that it was divesting its $80 billion portfolio.
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Corporate Knights
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Since our first report was launched in the summer of 2016, a great deal has changed in the world. Larry Fink, the CEO of the largest investment firm in the world, wrote in his 2022 letter to CEOs: “It’s been two years since I wrote that climate risk is investment risk. THE CLEAN200™ METHODOLOGY. Source: CK) 1. Source: CK) 1.
Corporate Knights
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
They also beat the global benchmark MSCI ACWI by 30% from July 1, 2016, to January 29, 2025. on a sustainable-revenue-weighted basis, outperforming the MSCI ACWI index (162.0%) and the MSCI ACWI/Energy Index of fossil fuel companies (76.7%) on Total Return Gross USD Basis from the Clean200 inception of July 1, 2016, to January 29, 2025.
Corporate Knights
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Between July 1, 2016, and January 15, 2024, Clean200 companies generated a total return of 103.5%. In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors saying, ‘If we divest fossil fuels, there is nothing to invest in.’” through those years. through those years. dollars.
Edouard Stenger
MAY 24, 2017
As more and more institutions and people are divesting from fossil fuels globally, climate responsible finance is booming. From a mere three billion USD in 2012 it has grown to $81 billion in 2016 and could reach $150 billion this year. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since.
Chris Hall
MARCH 27, 2024
Reflecting on these findings, it’s perhaps understandable that some investors have become frustrated by the sector’s lack of progress. Last year, the Church of England Pensions Board and Church Commissioners divested from all oil and gas firms that failed to align with climate goals – including Shell.
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