Thirty years ago, As You Sow began its shareholder advocacy, pursuing corporate accountability, financial transparency, and a safe, just, and sustainable world for all.
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The SEC’s new climate rule is currently in a comment period – it will be a major game-changer if it’s implemented.
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Thirty years ago, As You Sow began its shareholder advocacy, pursuing corporate accountability, financial transparency, and a safe, just, and sustainable world for all.
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As You Sow holds corporations accountable. We directly engage CEOs, senior management, and institutional investors to promote environmentally and socially responsible business practices. 2021 saw a major expansion in shareholder power, with EIGHT majority votes spanning multiple issue areas.
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98% of General Electric shareholders voted in favor of our shareholder resolution…
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Shareholder votes are advisory. The point is to make it clear to management there’s an issue that needs attention and action.
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Shareholders returned majority votes on five As You Sow resolutions this year, in an entirely unprecedented show of shareholder unity — historically, majority votes are vanishingly rare. Five in one year is unprecedented.
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Exxon is the 5th largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, behind only China, Russia’s Gazprom, and the national oil companies of Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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2021 Impact - The progress you drove this year.
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98% of General Electric shareholders voted in favor of our shareholder resolution, and GE took action.
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The guilty verdict in the George Floyd murder case is a glimmer of hope, but real change comes only with great effort. Companies need to be held accountable
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Our pesticide-laden food system needs an overhaul. We’re holding big consumer- facing food companies — the biggest customers of agricultural commodities — responsible for their suppliers’ farming practices
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Recycling is important, but it’s not going to stem the tide of plastic pollution engulfing our oceans.
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After taking baby steps in 2020, by early 2021 all six of the banks we engage had committed to align their financing activities with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. Commitments include setting net-zero-by-2050 targets
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BlackRock’s new U.S. “Carbon Transition Readiness ETF”, which attracted $1.25 billion in investor dollars on the first day it launched, is chock-full of fossil fuel companies.
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The U.S. imprisons more of its people, both per capita and in total, than any other country in the world.
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Harness Your Economic Power. Now, Thanks to YOU, Prison Free Funds is a reality.
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2020 saw a major escalation in shareholder power, with FOUR majority votes and an order of magnitude increase in the number of shareholders authorizing As You Sow resolutions.
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The George Floyd murder and the national outrage kindled an introspection at As You Sow that resulted in launching a Racial Justice initiative without dedicated funding. We as a group simply could not stand by when our expertise could move the needle, in a way that mattered.
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