BlackRock insists: 'We’re committed to NZ'

BlackRock insists: 'We’re committed to NZ'
BlackRock Australian executive Andrew Landman announcing the proposed NZ fund in August 2023. (Image: NZME)
Pattrick Smellie
The global investor behind the liquidation of innovative New Zealand electricity provider SolarZero rejects suggestions that it is no longer committed to NZ, citing that it has opened an Auckland office as evidence.However, a Sydney-based spokesperson could not extend that commitment to continued backing for the $2 billion NZ climate change investment fund that BlackRock announced it would seek to establish last August.They also stressed that SolarZero, a renewable energy investment contributing to decarbonisation initiatives, was a &ldquo...

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