Economics

Dumping Oil Stocks Proving Hard to Explain for Crude-Rich Norway

  • Norway says wealth fund oil divestment is pure risk spreading
  • Move still being celebrated as decisive climate action
Photographer: Carina Johansen/Bloomberg
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Norway is finding it hard to convince the world that its $1 trillion wealth fund’s divestment from oil stocks has nothing to do with climate change.

Even the secretary general of the United Nations isn’t buying it: