Vanguard Group backs climate disclosure in voting U-turn
Asset manager breaks with tradition, revealing proxy voting records backing climate disclosure and promising to take more public positions on climate risk in the future
Major US asset manager Vanguard Group revealed yesterday a major break with past protocol, voting for the very first time against Exxon Mobil management in a shareholder resolution to require the oil giant...
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