| The critics are right that it is hard to detect much impact from divestment campaigns on firms’ cost of capital. The first recruits to the fossil-fuel campaign were charities and universities with relatively small investments. Its biggest coup came earlier this year, when Norway’s vast sovereign-wealth fund resolved to sell its investments in coal and the dirtiest forms of oil production.
A few big pension funds, such as PFZW of the Netherlands, have promised to reduce the carbon footprint of their holdings. But the consequences for the share prices or bond yields of the spurned firms, if any, are not discernible amid the far bigger swings attributable to changes in the price of oil, gas and coal..............................................Full Article: Source
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