Why Oil And Gas Stocks Keep Leaking Into 'Green' Investments

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The market for 'green' or environmentally-friendly investments has exploded to over $30 trillion—but investors are finding it hard to navigate a market with murky labeling and unclear definitions of 'green' by DavidGDawkins

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Investment fund giant Vanguard disclosed last week that $500 million exchanged-traded fund that was meant to “specifically exclude” stocks linked with fossil fuels and other vice industries had been investing in companies like oilfield services provider Schlumberger.

Funds ensure that returns from ESG investments are comparable to non ESG investments by swapping out the environmental, social, governance for options close in orbit to the very thing they’re seeking to avoid.

 

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DavidGDawkins Protection of the environment (“green”) is important issue, let’s due thorough due diligence of projects we label “green” and make sure they are so. It would be too “expensive” to waste our planet’s future on fads. It’s our responsibility to invest in “true green”.

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