Pension scheme NEST withdraws investment from low carbon laggards

Michael Holder
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National workplace pension scheme reveals it pumped £27m in to green economy in 2017, as it calls for firms to embrace higher environmental governance standards

NEST, the workplace pension scheme set up by the UK government, will today urge investment managers to push for higher environmental and corporate governance standards as it announces further progress...

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