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Big finance considers climate change a major investment risk. Is your pension prepared? If you have a pension, chances are you re invested in fossil fuels. Whether or not that worries you from a climate perspective, there s a growing sense in the financial world that climate risk is tantamount to investment risk and companies not planning for a net-zero world may be a bad bet. Social Sharing Lisa Johnson · Posted: Apr 17, 2021 11:12 AM ET | Last Updated: April 17 Recurrent flooding, such as that seen in Gatineau, Que., in 2017 and 2019, is one of the physical risks of climate change that the financial world is worried will harm investments. There s also growing demand for disclosure to gauge which companies may be profitable in the low-carbon economy of the future and which won t.(Chris Wattie/Reuters) ....