HSBC and Aviva back project to identify 'stranded' high-carbon assets

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Oxford University research programme aims to highlight investments whose value is likely to decline in a low-carbon future

One of the UK's leading universities will today launch a new research programme aiming to help investors identify assets that could be left "stranded" by climate change, declining resources and the emergence...

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