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'No issue ranks higher than climate change': BlackRock CEO presses firms to pursue net zero emissions

Michael Holder

26 January 2021 • 5 min read

BlackRock has announced plans to step up its net zero efforts

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BlackRock has announced plans to step up its net zero efforts

Larry Fink, CEO of world's largest asset manager, urges firms to publicly disclose credible strategies for achieving net zero by 2050

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has called on all the companies that the world's largest asset manager engages with to publicly set out how they plan to achieve net zero emissions, as he stressed there was "no...

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