Shareholder representative As You Sow filed resolutions asking five of the largest U.S. banks — Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo — to disclose climate transition plans for achieving their 2030 net zero-aligned greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
Read MoreMicrosoft shareholders voted on an As You Sow resolution asking the company to disclose how the company’s 401(k) retirement funds manage the growing systemic risk created by investing in companies contributing significantly to climate change.
Read MoreAmalgamated Bank and Green Century Capital Management filed a shareholder resolution with Amazon requesting the company measure and disclose the emissions from its full value chain, including from all products it sells.
Read MoreAs part of a previous agreement with As You Sow, PepsiCo Monday unveiled a global packaging goal intended to increase the percentage of its total beverage servings delivered through reusable models from 10% to 20% by 2030.
Read MoreCampbell’s shareholders Wednesday voted on an As You Sow’s shareholder resolution asking the company to prepare a report assessing how the company’s retirement funds manage the growing systemic risk created by investing in companies contributing significantly to climate change.
Read MoreThe Department of Labor today released its long-awaited “Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights” rule that empowers plan fiduciaries to safeguard the savings of America's workers by clarifying that …
Read MoreAs You Sow today released an update to its racial justice and workplace equity scorecards to include the most up-to-date information on the 1,000 largest publicly traded companies. The data-refresh found companies are taking steps to increase transparency and accountability on the path to justice.
Read MoreShareholder representative As You Sow today released “Pay for Climate Performance: Linking CEO Compensation to Emissions Reduction” report finding that, while many companies say they link CEO pay to climate reduction goals, such incentives generally lack meaningful metrics or sufficient compensation to incentivize climate progress.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreAs You Sow today released its “2022 Shareholder Impact Review: Changing Corporations for Good” report summarizing its 2022 proxy season engagements.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreToday, 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreWarren Wilson College, a liberal arts college in North Carolina, has made an impact by actively engaging the companies in which the endowment invests.
Read MoreTesla 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.
Read MoreAlmost 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreToday, 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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