Article 6D15Y UK investors backtrack on support for climate resolution at oil firms’ AGMs

UK investors backtrack on support for climate resolution at oil firms’ AGMs

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Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent
from on (#6D15Y)

Asset management firms accused of sacrificing climate action by voting against shareholder resolution at Chevron and ExxonMobil

Some of the UK's largest investors have backtracked on their support for a shareholder resolution that would force the big oil companies to cut their carbon emissions, according to a campaign group.

Asset managers at Legal & General, abrdn and Janus Henderson voted against the climate resolutions put forward by Follow This, a Dutch shareholder activist group, at the annual general meetings of the US oil companies Chevron and ExxonMobil this year, having voted in favour of them in previous years.

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