How to stop your retirement money funding climate change
Zero: The Climate Race
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The Politics of Pensions
Pensions are not just fueling the climate crisis here as a UK issue, but many of the world's biggest asset managers and pension parts are based in the US. In the US specifically, there is a backlash, there's a political backlash on certain types of investments. So ESG investments are being opposed by Republicans. Are you worried that that kind of politicization of investments is going to spread and will harm the sort of work you're trying to promote? I mean, yes. There is an issue of sort of drawing everything up on sort of culture, wars, arguments. But you've got to believe that you're right. Not everyone has a choice about where the pension money goes.
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