After engagement with As You Sow on reducing single use plastic packaging, Walmart Inc., the world’s largest company by revenue and largest U.S. grocery retailer, has agreed to cut its use of virgin plastic by 2025.
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Following a shareholder proposal filed by As You Sow and Green Century Capital Management°, Target Corporation, a Fortune 50 general merchandise retailer, has agreed to set a virgin plastic elimination goal for its private brand packaging across its fast-moving goods categories.
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Today, 98% of investors voted for a shareholder resolution at General Electric’s annual meeting, according to preliminary numbers.
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A majority of American Express (NYSE:AXP) investors today voted in support of a shareholder resolution requesting that the company report on how its internal workplace practices align with the company’s stated commitment to diversity equity and inclusion.
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In a record-high vote on an environmentally oriented shareholder proposal that was opposed by management, a whopping 81.2% of investors at DuPont supported an As You Sow shareholder resolution asking the company to report on spills of plastic pellets that are released into the environment.
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In the highest vote on plastic pellet pollution to-date, a majority of investors at DuPont today voted in support of an As You Sow shareholder resolution asking the company to produce an annual report on the amount of pre-production plastic the company releases into the environment annually.
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Today, at Abbott Laboratory’s annual meeting, 40% of investors voted in support of a racial justice shareholder resolution, according to preliminary results.
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Twitter announced Thursday in a tweet, a pledge to join the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and adopt a clearly defined pathway for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement’s net-zero goal.
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The BlackRock U.S. Carbon Transition Readiness ETF (ticker LCTU) launched last week breaking funding records on its first trading day with $1.25 billion invested.
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After engagement with As You Sow on reducing single use plastic packaging, Keurig Dr Pepper Inc., the third largest non-alcoholic packaged beverage company in North America, has agreed to cut its use of virgin plastic for packaging by 20% by 2025. Keurig Dr Pepper used 208,000 metric tons of plastic packaging in 2018.
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Shareholder representative As You Sow today released a report, “Plastics: The Last Straw for Big Oil?”, addressing the financial and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks of overinvestment in petrochemical infrastructure.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has upheld As You Sow’s shareholder proposal asking Chevron for clear and transparent accounting of how a net-zero greenhouse gas by 2050 scenario will affect its operations and performance.
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Today, Majority Action launched Proxy Voting for 1.5°C World, which outlines a list of systemically important companies in the electricity generation and oil and gas industries that have not set emissions targets aligned to limiting warming to 1.5°C.
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Today, Climate Action 100+ (CA100) released an assessment of the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) polluting companies for progress against its Net-Zero Company Benchmark.
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Shareholder representative As You Sow recently withdrew shareholder proposals at two large U.S. gas and electric utilities, Dominion Energy and DTE Energy.
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Today, CarMax Inc. (CarMax) announced a new goal to achieve net-zero carbon greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — the same as the Paris Agreement.
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Proxy Preview 2021, today released by As You Sow, the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), and Proxy Impact, offers a comprehensive look at hundreds of shareholder resolutions about environmental, social, and sustainable governance (ESG) issues.
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As You Sow, the nation’s leading non-profit shareholder advocacy organization, has launched AS YOU VOTE in partnership with Proxy Impact to enable all shareholders to vote their values.
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Tuesday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) allowed ExxonMobil to reject a shareholder request for clear and targeted reporting on if and how it intends to reduce the risk of stranded assets related to its petrochemical investments like plastics, especially in consideration of the public, market, and governmental responses to plastic pollution, community health, and climate change.
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