Standard Bank shareholders this week voted down a resolution that would have required it to report climate risk in its activities, though they passed another ordering it to disclose its coal financing policies.

It was the first time a South African company had tabled a resolution on climate-related issues, according to shareholder group Just Share, which supported the motion...

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