Larry Fink: Mandated climate disclosures needed for private companies as the 'mission is failing'

Hydrocarbon firms being bought by private equity

Kathleen Gallagher
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In an event at COP26, Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, has said that we are at risk of the “biggest capital arbitrage in our history” if private companies are not forced into the same kind of climate disclosure as public companies.

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