As You Sow today launched the Climate Inflation initiative, an educational initiative to help people understand how climate change is negatively impacting our lives, including driving up supply chain costs.
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As You Sow today released its “2022 Shareholder Impact Review: Changing Corporations for Good” report summarizing its 2022 proxy season engagements.
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As You Sow today released new Fossil Free Finance and Insurance ratings that score mutual funds and ETFs based on their investments in banks and insurers providing loans and underwriting that support fossil fuel projects.
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Today, As You Sow, a leading shareholder advocacy nonprofit, announced the results of its corporate engagements on racial justice and workplace equity over the last 12 months.
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A new report released today by As You Sow and the National Confectioners Association is the result of a three-year effort by a multi-disciplinary panel of four experts regarding the sources of lead and cadmium in cocoa and chocolate and how levels may be reduced in the future.
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Warren Wilson College, a liberal arts college in North Carolina, has made an impact by actively engaging the companies in which the endowment invests.
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Tesla Inc. Thursday announced that 63.7% of its independent shareholders (35.4% overall) voted in support of a water risk reduction proposal filed by shareholder representative As You Sow.
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Almost one year after 35% of its shareholders requested that Nike release its recruitment and promotion rates of its diverse employees, Nike has committed to publishing this information by the end of 2024 parsed by gender, race, and ethnicity.
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The Proxy Preview team today released highlights of the unprecedented 2022 proxy season, which so far has seen a record-breaking 282 votes and 34 majorities votes favoring disclosure and action on environmental, social, and sustainable governance shareholder resolutions.
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As You Sow, a long-time advocate of producer responsibility for packaging, salutes the passage of landmark California legislation (SB 54) that makes producers responsible for the recycling of post-consumer packaging, requires a 25% reduction in use of single-use plastic packaging, and a 65% recycling rate for all packaging by 2032.
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Today, the Supreme Court defied years of precedent and ignored Congressional intent in denying the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to respond to new pollution sources including regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants.
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Today, As You Sow, a leading non-profit in shareholder advocacy and Tulipshare, a UK based activist retail investment platform, have announced a strategic partnership to empower retail investors globally to use their shareholder power in support of resolutions on climate, racial justice, and other pressing issues this proxy season.
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As You Sow’s shareholder resolution asked Comcast to prepare a report on the contrast between the adoption of strong climate policies for its operations versus high carbon investments in its employee retirement investment plan.
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oday at Caterpillar’s annual general meeting, 96% of investors (based on the company’s preliminary tally) supported a shareholder resolution filed by As You Sow, Amalgamated Bank, Canada Post, and SHARE.
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Sixty-four percent of Alphabet Inc.'s independent shareholders (22.6% overall) voted in support of As You Sow’s water risk reduction proposal at the company’s annual general meeting last week.
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Shareholders of McDonald’s Corporation representing more than $51 billion in market value supported a resolution filed by As You Sow requesting the company develop a list of actions it could take to reduce plastic pollution.
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Results released Tuesday by The Travelers Companies show that 55.8% of shareholders voted at the annual general meeting last week in support of a greenhouse gas reduction proposal filed by investor representative As You Sow.
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In a powerful display of support in the fight against plastic pollution, 48.9% of shareholders of Amazon.com supported an As You Sow shareholder resolution at the company’s annual meeting last week.
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The long-awaited U.S. Securities Exchange Commission draft rule on fund naming was released today requiring companies to improve the accuracy of names and prospectus language of mutual funds and ETFs.
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Amazon shareholders voted today on an As You Sow resolution asking the company to prepare a report on why the company operates under one set of climate policies for its operations and the opposite in its employee retirement investment plan. Vote totals will be released in four days.
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