BlackRock, Vanguard Defend How They Handle Corporate Climate Risk After Critical Report
The report accused New York-based BlackRock and Pennsylvania-based Vanguard of "using their shareholder voting power to shield corporate boards from accountability ... for their failures on climate and their irresponsible lobbying."
September 18, 2019 at 05:09 PM
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Two major investment firms, BlackRock Inc. and The Vanguard Group Inc., strongly defended themselves Wednesday against a report that accused them of "greenwashing" their responses to climate risk.
Majority Action, a California-based corporate governance nonprofit, issued the report Tuesday titled "Climate in the Boardroom: How Asset Manager Voting Shaped Corporate Climate Action in 2019."
The report accused New York-based BlackRock and Pennsylvania-based Vanguard of "using their shareholder voting power to shield corporate boards from accountability … for their failures on climate and their irresponsible lobbying."
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