AXA promises investment and insurance coal phase-out

Madeleine Cuff
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Campaigners hail new climate strategy as a 'new global benchmark for best practice'

AXA is to phase out coal from business activities by 2030 in OECD states and by 2040 around the world, the insurance giant announced yesterday. In a move hailed by climate campaigners as setting "a...

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