Beyond Fossil Fuels: The Investment Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment

Impax makes the investment case for fossil fuel divestment. The paper looks at the building pressure to divest, dispels some of the myths around divestment and considers the un-priced risks that are accumulating in the fossil fuel sector. It goes on to analyse four alternative fossil free portfolio structures. Interestingly, investors could have substituted clean energy stocks for fossil fuel stocks without any negative impact on performance. A portfolio replacing fossil free stocks with a diversified environmental technology and research optimisation strategy would have delivered the highest returns and information ratio.