Why divestment is the outcome of a thoughtful investment process

Having been intimately involved with the founders of the Carbon Tracker Initiative since 2006, I’ve seen the entire history of the so-called ‘stranded assets argument’, the turf war that resulted, and the now wide and growing acceptance of the premise that most of the world’s remaining fossil fuel needs to remain in the ground for the world to retain a chance of avoiding a likely series of global climate catastrophes triggered by the effects of climate change over the next decades.