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.
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Amalgamated 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.
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Shareholder 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.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Today at the annual general meeting of oil giant Chevron, investors voted on a shareholder resolution asking the company to disclose the quantitative impact on its financial position of global success in meeting the Paris Agreement’s net-zero goal.
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The largest global oil and gas companies are quietly planning multi-billion dollar investments in new fossil fuel production, including 195 “carbon bombs” or projects that would each release more than a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) over the life of each project, according to an investigation by The Guardian.
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In a resounding vote of support for climate action, 91% — representing more than $43.7 billion in assets — of Boeing shareholders supported a Say on Climate resolution filed by As You Sow.
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On March 31, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ruled that As You Sow’s shareholder proposal to Travelers insurance company, asking the company to address its Scope 3 financed emissions, can move forward to a vote at the company’s annual general meeting.
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The long-awaited U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) draft rule on climate disclosure was released today requiring companies to provide Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions disclosures; any climate-related goals and progress; climate transition plans, if any; climate-related risk assessment information, including transition risk; and climate governance information, among others.
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Shareholder advocacy group Majority Action last week filed an exempt solicitation asking investors to oust two board members — chairman Michael Wirth and board member Ronald Sugar — at oil major Chevron due to the company’s failure to sufficiently cut its carbon emissions.
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