How investors can help car companies tackle climate risk roadblocks

Madeleine Cuff
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Car companies must prepare for a low-emission world by reshaping their business models to focus on greener technologies and mobility services, investors claim

Activist investors have put oil giant such as Exxon Mobil, BP and Shell in the spotlight in the past 12 months for their fossil fuel exploration plans, demanding to know how their current business models...

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