Climate Changed

Big Money Turns Saving the Planet on Its Head

  • BlackRock, Brookfield question value of oil-and-gas divestment
  • Energy stocks are on a tear with oil approaching $100 a barrel

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Calls to end fossil-fuel investments seem to come from just about everywhere -- Harvard University, the Vatican and big philanthropies like the Ford Foundation.

So it might be a surprise that some of the world’s biggest money managers have adopted the exact opposite line. To save the planet, they say, don’t dump those holdings.