{"id":31053,"date":"2016-09-06T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T23:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=31053"},"modified":"2016-09-09T15:10:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T14:10:42","slug":"named-and-shamed-the-top-funds-blocking-climate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2016\/09\/06\/named-and-shamed-the-top-funds-blocking-climate-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Named and shamed: the top funds blocking climate action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Environmental\u00a0issues like climate change &#8220;have real and quantifiable financial impacts,&#8221; Blackrock CEO Larry Fink said in a letter to business chiefs in May.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fink <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2016\/02\/05\/blackrock-worlds-largest-investor-flags-up-climate-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\">praised shareholder activists<\/a>, saying they often had\u00a0better strategies for dealing with long-term risk than company boards.<\/p>\n<p>Why then did the world&#8217;s biggest fund of its kind, with\u00a0US$4.7 trillion of assets under management,\u00a0side with ExxonMobil at its AGM against a proposal to do just that?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is real hypocrisy,&#8221; said Julian Poulter, CEO at non-profit the <a href=\"http:\/\/aodproject.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Asset Owners Disclosure Project<\/a>. &#8220;There is no other word for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AODP on Tuesday named and shamed\u00a0the biggest Exxon investors blocking action to manage climate risk, including Vanguard, Bank of New York Mellon and JP Morgan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/newsletter-sign-up\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Weekly briefing:<\/strong>\u00a0Sign up for your essential climate politics update<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It focuses on item\u00a012, which asked the US\u00a0oil\u00a0major to &#8220;stress test&#8221; its business model against the international goal of holding global warming below 2C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2015\/04\/16\/bp-adopts-climate-risk-proposal-after-shareholder-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">BP<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2015\/05\/19\/shell-adopts-climate-plan-defends-arctic-oil-drilling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shell<\/a>\u00a0embraced similar resolutions in 2015, implicitly accepting that carbon-cutting rules and clean technology could affect their future profitability &#8211; and investors had a right to know how.<\/p>\n<p>The logic is that more than two thirds of known fossil fuel reserves are unburnable if the world is to avoid dangerous climate impacts.<\/p>\n<p>Companies that overspend on exploration could struggle to sell their wares as emissions cuts bite. Their financial backers would lose out. In the worst case scenario, the &#8220;carbon bubble&#8221; bursts,\u00a0triggering a financial crisis.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2016\/05\/24\/total-rules-out-arctic-oil-drilling-citing-2c-goal\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Report:<\/strong>\u00a0Total rules out Arctic oil drilling, citing 2C goal<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exxon&#8217;s board <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2016\/05\/26\/exxon-chevron-wont-budge-on-climate-so-what-happens-next\/\" target=\"_blank\">rejected<\/a>\u00a0this analysis, adamant that only fossil fuels\u00a0could realistically meet growing world energy demand.\u00a0Activists drummed up 38% support for their proposal &#8211; a respectable result for a contested vote, but not enough to force change.<\/p>\n<p>Of the funds that\u00a0endorsed the status quo, 45% were signatories\u00a0to the Principles of Responsible Investment and 25% to the Carbon Disclosure Project.<\/p>\n<p>They were trying to show clients\u00a0they were serious about sustainability, said Poulter, but undermining it with their voting behaviour.\u00a0&#8220;You can&#8217;t have your cake and eat it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Blackrock said:\u00a0&#8220;We prefer to engage with companies directly on complex issues such as adaptation to a low carbon economy. We have engaged extensively on a range of issues related to the themes of these shareholder proposals. Where a company is unresponsive, we hold board members accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2016\/03\/04\/meet-the-investors-pushing-climate-reality-on-carbon-majors\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Analysis:\u00a0<\/strong>Meet the investors pushing climate reality on carbon majors<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Edward Mason, head of responsible investment at the Church Commissioners for England, which backed the climate resolution, noted that many of the institutions that voted against extra\u00a0climate risk reporting at Exxon were in favour at BP and Shell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that the size of this year\u2019s vote will encourage these investors to adopt a consistent approach to voting on climate risk disclosure in the future. Their clients should demand nothing less,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the wake of the Paris Agreement, proper climate related financial disclosure is a pre-requisite for successful investment management.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2016\/03\/04\/meet-the-investors-pushing-climate-reality-on-carbon-majors\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Report:<\/strong>\u00a0Pension holders petition funds on Exxon, Chevron climate resolutions<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>AODP also found a &#8220;crisis of accountability&#8221;. Pension holders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2016\/05\/11\/pension-holders-petition-funds-on-exxon-chevron-climate-resolutions\/\" target=\"_blank\">petitioned<\/a> more than 1,000 pension funds ahead of the Exxon AGM, urging them to align their retirement pots with climate goals. Only 35\u00a0responded, of which 23 declined to\u00a0reveal their voting intentions.<\/p>\n<p>It was partly a question of time: the campaign letters were sent three weeks ahead of the AGM. But\u00a0AODP argued\u00a0pension fund members were entitled to better information about where their money was going.<\/p>\n<p>Colette St-Onge, digital campaigns officer at Share Action, which led the Vote Your Pension push, said:\u00a0\u201cMembers engagement on issues like climate risk is an important tool to encourage responsible investing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These figures highlight how much work the industry as a whole needs to do to improve communications and accountability to members. Well-governed schemes are transparent about their voting and engagement activities; communicate their activities in a clear and accessible way; and actively solicit their members\u2019 views.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article has been corrected. Blackrock has US$4.7 trillion of assets under management, not $4.7\u00a0billion as previously stated<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the world&#8217;s biggest funds are not living up to their responsible investment rhetoric, AODP analysis of ExxonMobil investors reveals","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2554,598],"tags":[2275,80],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-31053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carbon-bubble","category-fossil-fuels","tag-exxon","tag-oil-and-gas","type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Named and shamed: the top funds blocking climate action<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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