Environmental campaign targets BlackRock amid claims of 'climate destruction'

Calls out Fink for failing to 'walk the talk'

Mike Sheen
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An environmental campaign has criticised BlackRock for allegedly being the "largest owner of fossil fuel companies and single largest contributor to climate destruction", and singled out CEO Larry Fink as failing to manage the business in line with his own expectations of stocks the firm invests in.

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