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The Rockefeller Foundation has doubled down after launching a high-profile campaign last month to support climate solutions including a $1 billion-plus pledge

Over the past decade, green and socially responsible investments, aka ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing, have emerged as one of the biggest investment megatrends in modern times. For years, trillions of dollars in new global funds ...

"The oldest oil fortune on Earth has decided that oil is not the future in any way; were getting somewhere," a leader of one environmental group told Newsweek.

The Rockefeller Foundation, a 107-year-old philanthropy built by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, says it will completely break with the fossil-fuel industry that seeded its wealth. The $5 billion endowment is pledging to drop its fossil fuel holdingsUSO and, notably, is promising to avoid new investments in the sector, its leadership told CNN in an interview.  The pledge makes the Rockefeller Foundation the largest U.S. foundation to join this divestment movement in the interest of slowing man...

The Next Generation of Philanthropists Last Updated: Dec. 7, 2020 at 9:57 a.m. ET First Published: Dec. 7, 2020 at 9:53 a.m. ET By Pentas December 2020 cover, featuring (from top left) Valerie Rockefeller, Justin Rockefeller, Josh Lauder, Stephen Curry, Ayesha Curry, Adrian Cheng, Melinda Gates, and Bill Gates. Illustration by Gluekit; Clockwise from top left: Courtesy of Valerie Rockefeller; Courtesy of Justin Rockefeller; Mattie C. (Lauder); Kelly Sullivan/Getty Imag...