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Dutch pension fund ABP stops fossil fuel investments

  • Mercados: Coal, Crude oil, Natural gas
  • 26/10/21

Dutch pension fund ABP will stop investing in fossil fuel producers and expects to divest the majority of its €15bn ($17.4bn) oil, gas and coal investments by the first quarter of 2023.

ABP based the decision to sell the investments — which represent around 3pc of the fund's total assets — on recently-published reports from the IEA and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). These said that progress on low-carbon energy is too slow to put the world on a path towards net zero emissions by 2050.

The move marks a turnaround for the firm, which previously said that staying in touch with fossil fuel companies would be better than not investing in them. The fund said it decided to stop investing in fossil fuel producers as it sees "insufficient opportunity for us as a shareholder to push for the necessary, significant acceleration of the energy transition at these companies".

ABP is now entering into a conversation with large fossil fuel consumers such as electricity firms, and companies in the car and aviation industries to influence a faster shift to sustainable energy.


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