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Members of €32bn Danish pension funds to vote on fossil fuel divestment

Damian Carrington, the Guardian

02 March 2015 •

Series of resolutions asks six of Denmark’s pension funds to drop their ‘black money’ investments in coal, oil and gas projects that cause climate change

Hundreds of thousands of academics, engineers and lawyers in Denmark are set to vote on divesting their €32bn (£23bn) pension funds from the fossil fuels that drive climate change. The first of a series...

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