{"id":86279,"date":"2019-11-07T12:28:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86279"},"modified":"2019-11-07T05:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T10:41:40","slug":"bbc-the-shareholders-fighting-to-make-oil-firms-greener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86279","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) The shareholders fighting to make oil firms greener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They can also convince firms to stop lobbying that is &#8220;inconsistent&#8221; with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to reduce the risks and impacts of climate change globally.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most successful activist groups has been Climate Action 100+, a global network of institutional investors that targets the world&#8217;s 100 largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/climateaction100.wordpress.com\/investors\/\">Its 370 members<\/a>, which have $35tn (\u00a327tn) of assets under management, include well-known names such as Aberdeen Standard, the Church of England Pensions Board and HSBC Global Asset Management.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the group, working with others, forced the oil giant Shell to make a legally binding commitment to use a broader definition of greenhouse gas emissions in its carbon-reduction targets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-50221505\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They can also convince firms to stop lobbying that is &#8220;inconsistent&#8221; with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to reduce the risks and impacts of climate change globally. One of the most successful activist groups has been<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86279\">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":[115,589,683,140,168,441,599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change-weather","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-ecology","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-stewardship","category-stock-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86279","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=86279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86281,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86279\/revisions\/86281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}