Star Tribune: Pondering pensions at the climate talks in Paris

Star Tribune: Pondering pensions at the climate talks in Paris

December 7, 2015

I first started thinking about pensions when I attended a news conference about the fast-growing success of the global divestment movement. The idea of divestment is to get large investment funds to take money out of fossil-fuel companies, undermining both the financial interests and social license of these industries.