PENSIONS

Pension schemes await Trump's decision on climate change

Council pension schemes face a nervous wait to discover whether US president Donald Trump will withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

By Mark Conrad | 24 May 2017

Council pension schemes face a nervous wait to discover whether US president Donald Trump will withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Recently published annual reports by the Local Government Pension Scheme's (LGPS) 91 funds showed that many town halls reacted quickly to the ground-breaking 2015 agreement by ditching fossil fuel investments.

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