Danielle Fugere, president of As You Sow, Billy Gridley, director of the Investor Network at Ceres, and Tim Dunn, investment professional and founder of Terra Alpha Investments, discuss the actions investors and companies are taking to meet net-zero targets.
Read MoreThis resolution, requesting an annually updated climate transition report, provides the opportunity for Booking Holdings to establish a comprehensive plan to respond to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Read MoreTo make up for lost demand, Big Oil is allocating significant resources to boost production of petrochemicals – especially plastics. This Hail Mary movement to increase plastics production faces a significant and growing landscape of risks.
Read MorePower utilities are at a juncture where they can continue to slow climate action with regressive lobbying or instead support Paris aligned policy and take advantage of opportunities inherent in the clean energy transition.
Read MoreProposal #3 requests disclosure on whether General Electric will rise to the occasion and meet the criteria of the Net Zero Indicator as laid out in the Climate Action 100+ Net Zero Company Benchmark or, if not, why not.
Read MoreAndrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, teamed up with Illinois Environmental Council and its affiliates, elected leaders, and other experts to offer educational sessions about the issues facing our environment, food systems, infrastructure, and good governance.
Read MoreTisha Schuller sits down with Danielle Fugere, President of As You Sow to learn about shareholder activism from the activist perspective. Shareholder resolutions are increasingly successful in pushing oil and gas companies to address climate concerns on activist terms.
Read MoreIn early May, French company Total, became the latest investor-owned oil and gas company to come out with an ambitious-sounding climate announcement. Total stated its support for the “goals of the Paris Agreement” and an intent “to be consistent with these goals . . . with a view for Total to get to net zero by 2050.”
Read MoreWithout a doubt, electric utilities have made significant progress in recent years in taking actions to reduce the sector’s impact on the climate crisis. Power sector companies are moving away from coal, setting net-zero or other substantial greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
Read MoreThe window of opportunity to prevent catastrophic climate change is narrowing. The world is already experiencing harmful impacts surpassing earlier projections, and such harms will only increase as “business as usual” emissions continue.
Read MoreBlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s 2020 annual letter sounds fantastic. It declares that the world’s largest asset manager will prioritize climate risks in investing. It acknowledges that “Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects.
Read MoreAs You Sow is lucky enough to be based in Oakland, California. When Gov. Jerry Brown announced that our neighbor San Francisco would host a Global Climate Action Summit, our ears perked up.
Read MoreMethane, which has approximately 86 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, is the main component of natural gas. Emissions of this potent climate forcer occur throughout the oil and gas supply chain. A recent EDF study demonstrated this problem could be 60% worse than previously thought.
Read MoreAs the Trump administration announces a weakening of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, it is important that American automakers do not ease up in their emission reductions.
Read MoreMark 2018 as the year that irresponsible methane emissions became nearly universally unacceptable. Methane mitigation is now serious business.
Read MoreAlarm bells have long been ringing about the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”. Opposition has focused on community health impacts from air and water emissions as well as climate change impacts from leaking methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Read MoreThe SEC is not meant to protect ExxonMobil from important shareholder questions. Rather, the proposal process is intended to allow an open discussion between shareholders and their company.
Read MoreThe automotive sector has a key role to play in helping to prevent climate change. Transportation accounts for more than 27 percent of U.S. greenhouse emissions. Given the accelerating pace of climate change and its devastating impacts, greenhouse gas emission reductions by the auto sector.
Read MoreTransition or trial? Response or responsibility? Fossil fuel companies must face these choices head on as they increasingly find themselves in the cross hairs of climate-related litigation.
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