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The transition involved reallocating 950 million NZ dollars (692million U.S. dollars) away from companies with high exposure tocarbon emissions and reserves into lower-risk companies, itsaid.
Chief Executive Adrian Orr said that the NZ Super Fund's focuson addressing climate change risk is in line with current globalbest practice by institutional investors.
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Chief Investment Officer Matt Whineray said that financialmarkets were underpricing climate change risk over the fund's longinvestment timeframe
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Nearly half of Americans whohave experienced online harassment said they knew the peopleresponsible for the harassing, according to a new report from PewResearch Center.
About 46 percent of harassment victims said their harassers werean acquaintance
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RIO DE JANEIRO， Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Following is the schedule of Rio Olympics finals to be contested on Wednesday， August 10 (all local time):
Cycling
08:30 Women's individual time trial
10:00 Men's individual time trial
Rowing
10:22 Men's quad sculls
10:34 Women's quad sculls
Shooting
12:00 Men's 50m pistol
15:25 Men's double trap
Canoe Slalom
15:15 Men's kayak (K1)
Weightlifting
15:30 Women's 69kg
19:00 Men's 77kg
Diving
16:00 Men's synchronised 3m springboard
Artistic gymnastics
16:00 Men's individual all-around
Judo
16:40 Women's 70kg
17:00 Men's 90kg
Fencing
20:15 Women's foil individual
20:45 Men's sabre individual
Table Tennis
21:30 Women's singles
Swimming
22:03 Men's 200m breaststroke
22:54 Women's 200m butterfly
23:03 Men's 100m freestyle
23:55 Women's 4x200m freestyle relay
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