BlackRock quits climate group in Wall Street’s latest environmental step-back
By Ross Kerber (Reuters) – BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, said on Thursday it will leave the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, Wall Street’s latest environmental step-back amid antitrust concerns raised by Republican politicians. BlackRock, which manages some $11.5 trillion, said that with two-thirds of its global clients committed to cutting emissions to net zero, it had made sense to join groups like the organization known as NZAMI. “However, our memberships in some of … Read more…