Oslo — More than 200 institutional investors with $26-trillion in assets under management said on Tuesday they would step up pressure on the world’s biggest corporate greenhouse gas emitters to combat climate change. Two years to the day since 195 governments adopted the Paris climate agreement, investors including Pacific Investment Management, 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. 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 Corporation. "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...
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