World’s largest sovereign wealth fund just dropped 11 companies over deforestation

Mongabay
By <a class="author-link"…Mar 9, 2016, 9:30 pm296 pts
Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, dropped 11 companies in 2015 over their connections to forest destruction. The GPFG, which manages $828 billion worth of funds, released its annual report for 2015 today, revealing that six palm oil companies, four…

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