Exxon's climate risk assessment prompts more questions than it answers

Madeleine Cuff
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The oil giant believes climate change poses 'little risk' to its reserves, but should investors take its conclusions at face value?

If investors in ExxonMobil are concerned about the impact of climate change on the oil giant's business, they've no need to be. That's the over-riding conclusion from Exxon's first report looking at...

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