BlackRock, de grootste vermogensbeheerder ter wereld, wil duurzamer beleggen, zegt ceo Larry Fink. Follow This is sceptisch.
‘Een enorme contradictie tussen woorden en daden’, zegt Mark van Baal, de activistische belegger die onder meer bij Shell duurzaamheidscampagnes voert. ‘Hij heeft gelijk, klimaat vormt een enorm risico voor alle beleggingen. Alleen Fink […]
Norway’s Equinor plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its domestic operations by 40% this decade and to near zero by 2050, potentially allowing the country to keep pumping crude even as it works to meet international climate obligations.
Read the story in the New York Times
“An […]
“Een historische beslissing”, noemt Mark van Baal van Follow This het. “Repsol doet waar wij Shell sinds 2015 om vragen. We verwachten dat klanten en aandeelhouders deze stap waarderen en andere oliebedrijven volgen.”
Follow This on Bloomberg: “Repsol is now the first oil major to be part of the solution to the climate crisis, and truly leading in its sector,” Mark van Baal, the founder of Follow This, said in a statement. “We hope shareholders and customers will reward CEO Josu Jon Imaz […]
As an activist investor, Mark van Baal is recruiting thousands of shareholders to unite and force companies like Shell to take climate change more seriously.
Interview by Christiane Amanpour on CNN (12:50 minutes)
The oil industry can make or break the Paris Climate Agreement. The goal of the symposium is to discuss how shareholders can support oil and gas companies to contribute to the goal of the Paris Climate Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2°C. We will discuss […]
Mark van Baal, founder of activist investor group Follow This, has spent much of the last few years trying to shepherd European oil majors towards greener investments. Key to this, he says, is persuading integrated energy giants to take responsibility for emissions produced by customers using their fuels, or what […]
As people around the world gathered for the largest climate protest in history last month, the audience at an event in Stavanger was told there can’t be a “rational conversation on global warming before we’ve stopped screaming”.
Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, […]
“We hebben bij Shell en BP laten zien hoe effectief klimaatresoluties zijn,” zegt Mark van Baal op BNR.
Oliegigant BP belooft de uitstoot van zogenoemde ‘Scope 3′-emissies omlaag te brengen. Die komen vrij bij het verbranden van fossiele brandstoffen. BP adviseerde in mei van dit jaar […]
This is Money | 14 augustus 2019
Why some investors buy shares in companies like Shell – so they can tell them how to behave
From flying less, to cutting down on plastic, many of us are trying to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle.
And, when it comes to green investment, most people […]
