Believing it is vital to translate vocal support for racial justice into actions, the non-profit shareholder advocacy group As You Sow released corporate scorecards using data across two categories of inclusion: racial justice and workplace equity. Read More ->
Read MoreA lot of retail investors who want to divest from fossil fuels don’t know what’s in their 401(k) plans. Many of them are unaware they have big oil companies, coal-fired utilities or oil-field services in their portfolios,” says Andrew Behar, chief executive of As You Sow, a nonprofit that works to promote corporate social responsibility. Read More →
Read MoreAn effective incentive needs to be something measurable, and it needs to be tied to something the recipient of the incentive can actually control, according to Rosanna Landis Weaver, executive compensation program manager for As You Sow. With respect to utility decarbonization, she said she also looks for incentives that reward actions beyond business as usual. Otherwise, Weaver said, the incentive only serves to inflate CEO compensation without producing meaningful change. Read More →
Read MoreIndeed, while organizations such as shareholder advocacy group As You Sow heralded GE's announcement as one that "signaled meaningful change to its business by moving away from high-carbon technologies like coal," GE framed the decision as one of market necessity. Read More →
Read MoreLila Holzman, energy program manager with As You Sow, which works with shareholders and businesses on corporate responsibility plans, said her group encourages companies to set big goals that align with the targets scientists have determined are necessary to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of global warming while also charting out more feasible shorter-term steps that get them started on the right path. Read More →
Read MoreDanielle Fugere, president of As You Sow, noted that the SEC vote “comes at a time when shareholders are appropriately acknowledging — and asking their companies to address — a wide range of social and environmental issues that have the potential to harm our environment, economy, and companies’ value. Read More →
Read More“The SEC’s rule demonstrates a failure to comprehend that [Environmental, Social and Governance] issues, including climate change, increasingly have material impacts on company value,” said Andrew Behar of As You Sow, a nonprofit, ESG-issue expert that often represents shareholders on a range of material issues. Read More →
Read MoreLila Holzman, energy program manager of nonprofit group As You Sow, called Southern Company’s decision to exclude Scope 3 emissions from its plan an “unacceptable” approach. She also criticized the plan’s lack of detail on the costs and risks of relying on as-yet-unproven technologies to cut the carbon footprint of its natural-gas fleet. Read More →
Read More“Access to capital will increasingly be tied to a company’s ability to reduce its emissions at the rate and scope necessary to align with the Paris goal,” said Danielle Fugere, president of As You Sow, a shareholder advocacy group. Read More →
Read MoreActivist investor groups, like As You Sow, have made great strides in recent years in convincing oil and gas companies to reduce their carbon footprints, Lila Holzman, energy program manager of the “green” shareholder advocacy organization, said in an interview. Read More →
Read MoreThis release follows a shareholder resolution from Trillium Asset Management and As You Sow earlier this year that sought new data on the plastics recycling systems and relevant policies of the nation's largest residential recycler. Read More →
Read More“Are they building things that will withstand 500-year storms that occur every year?” asked Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel of As You Sow. Read More →
Read MoreExxon has been betting on a continued future for oil and gas, and it has struggled since the coronavirus pandemic slashed oil prices, said Danielle Fugere, president of the activist investor group As You Sow. Read More →
Read MoreAndy Behar, CEO of As You Sow, says that Eugene Scalia’s three most recent DOL rulemakings suggest a personal vendetta. Read More →
Read MoreParticularly in the wake of the nation’s renewed attempts to reckon with racial justice, there has been a greater awareness about the power of money to make social change. Resources like As You Sow’s Prison Free Funds tool are now publicly available, to help individuals “find out if your money is invested in” economic systems like “the prison industrial complex, exploitative prison labor, and immigration detention centers.” Read More →
Read MoreAs You Sow was named #1 Top Corporate Watchdog. As a socially-conscious consumer or investor, how do you determine which corporations are fulfilling their social and environmental responsibilities (and are deserving of your money)? Read More →
Read MoreThe free Prison Free Funds tool from As You Sow, a nonprofit that promotes corporate social responsibility, tells users if a mutual fund or ETF is invested in companies that profit off of prisons and prison labor, as well as companies profiting off of the immigrant detention centers at the border. Read More →
Read More“The prison-industrial complex has kind of crept into our economy and has become part and parcel of the economy,” says Andy Behar, CEO of As You Sow, the nonprofit that built the new platform, the seventh in a series of tools for investors. “And so people don’t realize what’s inside their 401(k) plan. Read More →
Read More“I think what this reflects is really a responsible assessment of where the world is going in terms of energy demand, where the opportunity for growth exists, and demonstrates that the company wants to remain an energy company, as opposed to an oil and gas company,” says Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel of As You Sow, a nonprofit that focuses on environmental change through shareholder advocacy. Read More →
Read MoreCory Donovan, executive director of social impact investing organization ImpactPHL, used a tool from As You Sow, a 30-year-old nonprofit that pushes corporations towards more conscientious business practices, that allowed him to look up a socially good grade for the mutual funds that made up his Individual Retirement Account (IRA). What he learned was…not good. Read More →
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