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Five key metrics investors need to steer Oil and Gas firms into decarbonisation

December 4, 2020 by Ben Ratner and Erin Blanton

If the oil and gas industry won’t commit to meaningful strategies and milestones to decarbonise, investors must make them, say Ben Ratner at the Environmental Defense Fund and Erin Blanton at Columbia University. Already, Covid has shown how vulnerable the sector is to unexpected change. If the sector refuses to factor in rising decarbonisation ambitions and policies across the globe that vulnerability will continue for decades. At the same time, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: BP, Chevron, ESG, flaring, gas, investors, lobbying, methane, Occidental, oil, Pioneer, Repsol

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