Thread by @WillHild

🚨 @BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, @Unilever CEO Alan Jope and one of the UN's ESG Czars Damilola Ogunbiyi just spoke on an ESG panel, led by Bill Clinton, at the Clinton Global Initiative's September meeting.

You can't make this stuff up. Clips incoming.

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Bill Clinton praises @BlackRock CEO Larry Fink for being one of the main drivers of the ESG agenda:

Former President Bill Clinton and @BlackRock CEO Larry Fink label anyone that opposes ESG as "climate change deniers."

Clinton: "Talk to audience about equitable access to clean energy..."

UN ESG Czar: "When we think about a just and equitable energy transition, we can't think of one half of the world and leave out the developing countries..."

Bill Clinton and @Unilever CEO Alan Jope discuss how Unilever is putting the ESG agenda ahead of their fiduciary duty to shareholders:

"It's not a great place to be selling food or personal care products when you're under water or on fire..."

.@BlackRock CEO Larry Fink reiterates his new ESG talking point, claiming "climate risk is investment risk."

.@BlackRock CEO Larry Fink claims that ESG driving energy prices higher is actually a positive because it shrinks the "green premium."

.@BlackRock CEO Larry Fink calls to "change the charters" of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, along with bringing together "all governments" to facilitate his global ESG transition:

.@Unilever CEO Alan Jope cites George Orwell in discussing the "climate emergency" and "anti-woke backlash."

.@Unilever CEO Alan Jope ADMITS @BlackRock was one of the main drivers helping them pushing their ESG agenda:

.@Unilever CEO Alan Jope calls to make ESG ratings mandatory:

When asked by Bill Clinton about where the money is going to come from to facilitate a global ESG transition, one of the UN's ESG Czars said:

"Just like how we found $17 trillion for COVID, the money must be there somewhere..."