2021 Impact

The Progress You Drove This Year

  • Keurig Dr. Pepper, Mondelez, Pepsi, Target, Walmart agreed to set significant absolute reduction targets for plastics

  • Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, BofA, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo agreed to reduce financed emissions in alignment with Paris goals. Financed emissions are emissions generated by the companies and projects financed by these banks

  • Microsoft, in a first-of-its-kind agreement, committed to increasing access to spare parts and repair documents

 
 

  • General Mills is expanding its regenerative agriculture program — farmers are making more money and seeing birds return after decades, as soil health improves

  • Pepsi announced a regenerative agriculture initiative on 7 million acres

  • Monster Beverage, Foot Locker agreed to disclose plans to promote racial justice

  • General Electric agreed to set a net-zero by 2050 emissions reduction target for use of its products, which includes jet engines and natural gas turbines

  • Eastman Chemical agreed to report on plastic pellets spills, the 6th major petrochemical manufacturer to agree with our request

  • 81% of DuPont shareholders voted in favor of plastic pellet reporting, an extremely high vote on an environmental shareholder resolution opposed by management

  • Dow agreed to report on the physical climate risk exposure from its petrochemical expansion

  • FedEx, Twitter, United Airlines, CarMax, Hertz, Public Storage committed to strong emission reductions targets

  • Valero will link its executive compensation to climate performance measures

  • Hertz will improve its climate-related disclosures and work to advance electric vehicle adoption

  • Allstate, Booking Holdings, Campbell’s, CVS, Dollar Tree, Microsoft, UnitedHealth, Visa all agreed to report on plans to increase board diversity and/or assess effectiveness of overall company diversity and inclusion programs

  • AmEx, Berkshire Hathaway, Charter Communications, Union Pacific shareholders returned strong votes on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion resolutions

  • Campbell’s, JM Smucker’s, Pepsi agreed to significant progress on pesticides reduction

  • Walmart announced a new pollinator health policy, now the strongest policy at a national grocery retail chain

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