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The new guidelines mean Norway's Wealth Fund can no longer invest in companies that mine more than 20 million tonnes of coal annually, or generate more than 10,000 MW of power using coal. In practical terms, this means the fund will almost certainly have to sell its 2.03% holding in Glencore, one of the world's largest producers and exporters of seaborne traded thermal and coking coal. The stake in the British-Swiss multinational is worth more than $1 billion alone.
companies with any coal-related activities from the Fund. Their wish was convincingly defeated as the Centre Party and main opposition Labour Party voted with the government.
Wait isn’t the entire fund paid for by Norway’s oil industry? That’s a bit hypocritical
Well that’s just stupid.
The irony is that the majority of the fund was sourced from taxes and royalties obtained from the very same companies that are now being dumped