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Even for the earliest proponents of sustainable investing, its sudden spike in popularity is surprising, but satisfying.
April 2, 2021 10 MINS
Ten years ago, when Casey Clark was planning to focus his career on the ESG investing space, he was discouraged by friends and colleagues who described the move as a career killer and dead end.
Today, the global head of environmental, social and governance investments at Rockefeller Asset Management can’t keep up with the LinkedIn requests and people wanting to talk about ESG investing.
“I almost feel like I’m in a different world from only a few years ago, when it felt very risky to get into this space,” Clark said.
The Harvard Management Company has reduced its investments in fossil fuels by 80 percent since 2008 as it works to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions associated with the University s endowment by 2050, according to a company report published Thursday.
âHMC has reduced its overall exposure to fossil fuelsâââincluding both direct commodity investments as well as indirect investments in companies that explore for or develop further reserves of fossil fuels held through dedicated externally managed fundsâââfrom approximately 11% of the portfolio at the end of fiscal year 2008 to less than 2% at the end of fiscal year 2020, a decrease of more than 80%,â the report reads.