Investor groups point finger at "Climate Laggards": Exxon, GM and Others

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US investor group names and shames those firms consistently obstructing climate change related shareholder resolutions

"The writing is clearly on the wall: The low-carbon global economy is coming and companies need to be ready." So said Mindy Lubber, president of the environmental investor group Ceres, this week during...

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