AT&T, a trusted telecommunications brand providing phone and internet service to millions of Americans, made an important commitment to greater transparency of its political activities for the benefit of shareholders, customers, and all stakeholders as part of a shareholder resolution withdrawal agreement with As You Sow.
Read MoreToday, As You Sow, Sustainable Investments Institute, and Proxy Impact, released Proxy Preview 2023, which takes a comprehensive look at another record-breaking year, with more than 542 shareholder resolutions filed on environmental, social, and sustainable governance issues.
Read MorePresident Biden today issued the first veto of his presidency on a resolution to overturn the Congressional Review Act bill intended to overturn a Department of Labor rule that empowers retirement plan fiduciaries to consider material environmental, social, and governance risks when making investment and proxy voting decisions.
Read MoreMcDonald’s Corporation has pledged to evaluate and report on the opportunities and risks posed by switching to reusable packaging, including its impacts related to single-use plastic and other single-use packaging and the environment.
Read MoreInvestors support President Biden’s commitment to veto a Congressional Review Act bill intended to overturn a Department of Labor rule that empowers retirement plan fiduciaries to consider material environmental, social, and governance risks when making investment and proxy voting decisions.
Read MoreAs You Sow and Corporate Knights today released their 10th update of the Carbon Clean 200, a list of 200 publicly traded companies worldwide that are leading the way among their global peers to a clean energy present and future.
Read MoreAs You Sow today released its 9th annual report — “The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs: Are Fund Managers Asleep at the Wheel?” — which focuses on how pension and financial fund managers hold companies accountable for excessive compensation.
Read MoreShareholder 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.
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