Norwegian government reviews fossil fuel divestment plan

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Independent panel to assess whether country's giant wealth fund should quit oil, coal and gas investments

The global campaign to encourage institutional investors to ditch their holdings in fossil fuel assets could be about to claim its biggest scalp to date, after the Norwegian government announced it would...

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