Hackney Council's pension fund to halve fossil fuel exposure by 2023

Stephanie Baxter
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Hackney Council's pensions committee has announced it wants to cut fossil fuel investments after approving plans to reduce the scheme's exposure to carbon dioxide emissions.

The scheme's fossil fuel investments will be reduced by 50% over the next six years, measured by future CO2 levels, but the aim is to completely ditch them over the longer term. The ambitious mo...

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