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> Bush Faces Wall Street Pressure on Global Warming (Update1)
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> By Kim Chipman
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> Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The deadliest U.S. hurricane season in more
> than a century has some Wall Street investors sounding like members
> of the Sierra Club.
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> Responding to pressure from pension funds and other investors,
> companies are factoring climate change into the risks and
> opportunities faced by their businesses, according to the Carbon
> Disclosure Project, a group of 155 institutional investors who
> oversee $21 trillion.
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> The group, which includes the California Public Employees' Retirement
> System, the largest U.S. public pension fund, got 60 percent of the
> largest U.S. companies to participate in its annual study, reporting
> their emissions and their plans to reduce them. Calpers is among a
> group of funds overseeing $3 trillion in assets that in April pledged
> to invest $1 billion in companies that reduce greenhouse-gas
> emissions.
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