BlackRock is enacting new guidelines that would allow clients with climate-focused objectives to vote differently on shareholder proposals than others — the asset manager’s latest move to navigate a political divide over ESG investing.
In an email to clients, BlackRock announced the new guidelines would consider companies’ efforts to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, an objective established in the Paris Accords.
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