Why Stoltenberg wants to ditch the Oil fund ethics committee

Norway’s vast oil fund’s investments are guided by adivce from an ethics committee, but now finance minister Jens Stoltenberg wants to pause the committee’s work to avoid divestments from tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet – all of which have been accused of facilitating Israel’s war on Gaza. Meanwhile, the fund is voting against Elon Musk’s proposed wage package as Tesla boss. What’s going on? I try to explain on Monocle’s The Globalist.

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