Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For the leaders of the divestment movement, which encourages institutional investors to sell off their shares in fossil fuel companies, winning isn’t everything. But after a decade of determined lobbying, the divest side is suddenly doing a lot of winning. That tally, they noted, is bigger than the combined GDP of the U.S.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Pledge to divest over next two years follows mounting pressure from protesters. Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW) has announced it will stop investing in companies in the fossil fuel sector that do not commit to the Paris Agreement and ambitions outlined at COP26. Setting a 1.5°C The previous limits were 30% and 10%, respectively.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

Head of Sustainability at CDPQ Bertrand Millot highlights the pension fund’s focus on decarbonising the real economy, as well as comprehensively divesting from the oil industry. It also increased its green assets by 34% during the same period to C$53 billion, putting it within reach of its 2025 target of C$54 billion.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

R estoration c apital w ill become c ore to the c limate n arrative towards the 2025 r atchet , says Julian Poulter, Head of Investor Relations at the Inevitable Policy Response. If some current market signals are correct, then the fog of inflationary risks and forthcoming recession remains, but with an end in sight. errr …in the present.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

International cooperation is the goal of the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) and despite being dismissed as a failure, the final agreement at COP26 emphasized the importance of nature and ecosystems, including protecting forests and biodiversity. Under the Paris Agreement, countries were only obliged to update their goals by 2025.

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