{"id":1575,"date":"2025-11-06T10:07:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:09:14","slug":"why-stoltenberg-wants-to-ditch-the-oil-fund-ethics-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"Why Stoltenberg wants to ditch the Oil fund ethics committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-globalist_tile-6426f7bc0b4d0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-globalist_tile-6426f7bc0b4d0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1443\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-globalist_tile-6426f7bc0b4d0.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-globalist_tile-6426f7bc0b4d0-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-globalist_tile-6426f7bc0b4d0-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-globalist_tile-6426f7bc0b4d0-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Norway&#8217;s vast oil fund&#8217;s investments are guided by adivce from an ethics committee, but now finance minister Jens Stoltenberg wants to pause the committee&#8217;s work to avoid divestments from tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet \u2013 all of which have been accused of facilitating Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza. Meanwhile, the fund is voting against Elon Musk&#8217;s proposed wage package as Tesla boss. What&#8217;s going on? I try to explain on<a href=\"https:\/\/monocle.com\/radio\/shows\/the-globalist\"> Monocle&#8217;s The Globalist<\/a>.<a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Globalist-06.11.25.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway&#8217;s vast oil fund&#8217;s investments are guided by adivce from an ethics committee, but now finance minister Jens Stoltenberg wants to pause the committee&#8217;s work to avoid divestments from tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet \u2013 all of which have been accused of facilitating Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza. Meanwhile, the fund is voting against Elon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}