Energy Majors Pressed to Step Up Climate Action

Two years to the day since 195 governments adopted the Paris climate agreement, investors including Pacific Investment Management Company, Amundi, Legal & General Investment Management, Northern Trust and Aegon said they aimed to work with the 100 biggest polluting companies to curb emissions under a five-year plan, Reuters reported. That, they said, would be more effective than threatening to pull the plug on their investments in such companies, which include Coal India, Gazprom, Exxon Mobil and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. “We will be asking companies ... to curb emissions and bring them down in line with the Paris goals,” said Anne Simpson, investment director of sustainability at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. That would mean roughly an 80% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, she told reporters on a teleconference, beyond the ambition of most companies. The investors said they were also calling on companies to improve disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions, including those from the use of their products, and to step up governance of climate risks and opportunities. French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a summit in Paris on Tuesday to build on the 2015 climate accord, which has been weakened by US President Donald Trump’s plan to pull the United States out and instead bolster the US fossil fuel industry. Under the investors’ plan, divestment would only be a last resort. If big emitters refuse to cooperate with them, shareholders could ratchet up pressure with public statements, resolutions and votes. Such measures can work, they said. In May, for instance, 62% of shareholders in Exxon Mobil voted for greater transparency about climate risks of oil and gas despite opposition from the board. “To talk about this as ‘if you don’t do what we want we’re selling’ in a way lets the companies off the hook,” said Stephanie Maier, director of responsible investment at HSBC Global Asset Management.source: Financial Tribune

Energy Majors Pressed to Step Up Climate Action

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