BlackRock’s Larry Fink Meets Big Oil and Its Foes to Navigate Climate Fight
- BlackRock CEO held a roundtable with Exxon, Chevron and others
- He also met with groups at COP26 climate conference in Glasgow
Photographer: Justin Chin/Bloomberg
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Facing an uprising from fossil-fuel interests on the right and advocates fighting carbon emissions on the left, Larry Fink is making a personal effort to manage climate-change politics.
In recent weeks, the BlackRock Inc. chief executive officer has sought out private meetings with senior representatives from both cohorts as the world’s largest asset manager -- with about $10 trillion of client money -- faces intense scrutiny over its views on the environment.