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02/06/2017at 13:25

World's biggest publicly traded company loses shareholder battle over climate

ExxonMobil's management has been defeated by a majority of the company's shareholders, who want the US oil giant to make special climate calculations.
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by THOMAS BO CHRISTENSEN

The day before it emerged the president Donald Trump was pulling the US out of the climate deal entered in Paris in 2015, management in one of the country's largest companies lost a climate battle to its shareholders.

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