BlackRock announces shift away from funding tar sands

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The firm's sustainability funds will exclude companies with thermal coal and oil sands exposure, it announced today

US investment giant BlackRock announced yesterday that one of its fastest growing sustainable funds will stop investing in tar sands projects, as the firm steps up the integration of climate risk into...

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