CDP: Tiny fraction of $27tr global investment funds aligned with Paris Agreement

Pedro Gonçalves
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Non-profit decries 'catastrophic' investment data which shows less than one per cent of global fund assets are currently in line with below 2C of warming

Analysis of over 16,500 investment funds worth $27tr has revealed that just just 158 individual funds, worth 0.5 per cent of the total assets, are currently aligned with the Paris agreement's higher temperature...

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