{"id":48006,"date":"2015-01-21T18:41:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_church_of_england_environment_agency_pension_fund_other_group_tells_oil_\/"},"modified":"2015-01-21T18:41:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:41:39","slug":"ft_church_of_england_environment_agency_pension_fund_other_group_tells_oil_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48006","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Church of England, Environment Agency pension fund, other group tells oil groups to go green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Environment Agency\u2019s pension fund has urged BP and Royal Dutch Shell to invest in renewable energy and do more to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The government-backed agency\u2019s \u00c2\u00a32.5bn fund has teamed up with more than 150 other investors, including the Church of England and several large local authority pension funds. They have filed shareholder resolutions urging both oil companies to take more action on global warming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an easy decision,\u201d\u009d said John Varley, chairman of the Environment Agency pensions committee. \u201cWe believe that it is vital to manage climate risk within investments and that all shareholders have access to clear information to assess how these companies are managing risk and protecting shareholder value.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/e4fa3cee-a0c8-11e4-8ad8-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=intl#axzz3PSeX2CoI\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environment Agency\u2019s pension fund has urged BP and Royal Dutch Shell to invest in renewable energy and do more to tackle climate change. The government-backed agency\u2019s \u00c2\u00a32.5bn fund has teamed up with more than 150 other investors, including the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48006\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,74,389,582,589,149,140,168,151,108,599,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-stock-market","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}