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What role should climate concerns should play in investment decisions?

PC(USA) Mission Responsibility Through Investment Committee is tracking public policy debates on environmental, social and government (ESG) impacts on public investments – and looking to articulate where the church stands.

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To push back against efforts to use investor funds as a way to mitigate the impacts of global warming, the attorneys general in 19 conservative-leaning states are weighing in: issuing opinions that essentially conclude the only criteria that can be used in managing public pension funds is the best return to the investor.

At issue: whether it’s fair for companies hired to invest and manage those funds to also take into account what are...

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