Vanguard Group backs climate disclosure in voting U-turn

BusinessGreen staff
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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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