Cooking the Books podcast: Can investing in fossil fuels actually be the ethical choice?

Frances Sweetman, head of sustainable investment and a portfolio manager of New Zealand equities at Milford Asset Management.

Each week, BusinessDesk and the NZ Herald’s Cooking the Books podcast tackle a different money problem. Today, it’s the best strategy to take to actually make an ethical impact. Hosted by Frances Cook.

This episode is brought to you by Milford Asset Management.

The idea of a sustainable fossil fuel company might seem a contradiction in terms, to put it mildly.

But there are energy companies that were once enthusiastically drilling for oil and gas which have switched to pursuing green opportunities with a vengeance.

Certainly not all of them, though.

At the other end of the spectrum, other oil companies are suing their investors for daring to ask for change.

So if you want to get into the future of energy and dodge the dinosaurs, what do you need to know?

For the latest episode, I talked to Frances Sweetman from Milford Asset Management.

For the interview, listen to the podcast here.

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