Danske Invest adds 90 firms to exclusion list after Paris pledge

Ulrika Hasselgren, Head of Responsible Investing at Danske Bank, has been busy since starting work at Danske Bank a month ago. In her team's first public move, 90 companies in the thermal coal and tar sand businesses are being removed from the bank's investment universe.
Photo: /ritzau/AP/Huang Shi Peng
Photo: /ritzau/AP/Huang Shi Peng
BY LYKKE OGSTRUP LUNDE, AMWATCH

Only a month after sitting down in her new office for the first time, Danske Bank's head of responsible investment is ready to make changes in the bank's investment universe. Ulrika Hasselgren and her team have decided to add 90 companies to the bank's exclusion list, as a consequence of the group's endorsement of the Paris Pledge for Action to help limit global warming to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius. 

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