GETTING TO NET ZERO: How the McKnight Foundation is investing its $3 billion endowment to fight climate change.

JOHN D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; FORD Foundation; CLIMATE change; ENDOWMENTS; FOSSIL fuel industries

I am interested in a portfolio investment that's not only reducing greenhouse gases from current emissions levels, but also has products, services, investments, and companies that are actually improving our greenhouse gases. LEADING UP to November's global climate summit in Glasgow, the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation each announced that they would begin to remove fossil-fuel investments from their endowments, joining nearly 1,500 organizations worldwide that have also committed to some form of divestment, according to Divest Invest Philanthropy, a group advocating transition to a zero-carbon economy. She cites two companies in which the foundation has a stake through its investments in G2 Venture Partners, a venture-capital firm focused on helping existing industries become greener. Our private-investment portfolio stretches from seed and venture capital to buyout firms to real assets [such as real estate, metals, and commodities]. [Extracted from the article]

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