The Gold Standard Oil And Gas Companies

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Summary

  • ESG as a theme is probably a fad, yet some aspects of it are useful as risk assessment tools.
  • A big risk for oil and gas stocks is methane emissions, and until now, it has not been easy to assess this.
  • The Oil & Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 is the United Nations Environment Programme’s flagship oil and gas reporting and mitigation programme.
  • The OGMP 2.0 Gold Standard awards indicate the best companies related to risks around methane emissions.

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Regardless of whether or not the Trump administration stays or leaves The Paris Agreement - the international treaty on climate change, and whether or not the idea of ESG investing gets ditched, or ESG gets replaced by the term sustainability (as I think it

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