Fossil fuel giants failing to disclose investor risk, study warns

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Latest Carbon Tracker report provides fresh evidence energy sector is exposed to billions of dollars of transition risk as the world pivots to a low carbon economy

Oil and gas firms are largely failing to disclose the information investors need to accurately assess their exposure to risk associated with climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy, according...

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