Norway's wealth fund voted in favour of Shell CEO pay, against climate targets

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(Reuters) - Norway's $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, voted against a motion presented at the of calling on the to set climate targets.

Long-term investors with $10.4 trillion of assets under management, including banks and HSBC, had called on the to set firm carbon emission targets in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement.

The motion was defeated by 95 percent of Shell investors on Tuesday.

The fund also said it had voted in favour of the remuneration package of Ben van Beurden, worth 8.9 million euro ($10.51 million) in 2017, which was adopted by 75 percent of Shell investors on Tuesday.

(Reporting by Gwladys Fouche, editing by and Ole Petter Skonnord)

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First Published: Wed, May 23 2018. 10:44 IST