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Clean200 2021

We are pleased to present the 2021 Carbon Clean 200™ list of publicly traded companies that are leading the way with solutions for the transition to a clean energy future.

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2020 Shareholder Impact Review

In total, 131 engagements with 111 companies across 10 program areas. Seventy-three engagements escalated to formal shareholder resolutions, filed on behalf of 221 shareholders.

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Smoke & Mirrors: Healthcare Company Retirement Plans Are Addicted to Tobacco

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing more than 8 million people a year around the world. . .

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Waste and Opportunity 2020: Searching for Corporate Leadership

Plastic pollution is a global crisis that is actively threatening oceans, wildlife, and public health. Plastic pollution has rapidly elevated to crisis level in the past three years as better data on the scope of the problem has become available.

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Proxy Voting Guidelines 2020

The Guidelines are designed to be handed off to your investment advisor or proxy voting service, or you can use them to help you vote your own proxies.

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Proxy Preview 2020

Proponents have filed at least 429 shareholder resolutions on environmental, social and sustainable governance issues for the 2020 proxy season, up from 366 filed at this time in 2019.

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Natural Gas: A Bridge to Climate Breakdown

This report serves to inform investors about the evolving risks associated with the use of natural gas within the power sector. At a time when investors are paying increasing attention to power utilities’ exposure . . .

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2020 Strategic Plan

In 1992, we started with a bold and audacious plan to “seed” change in corporate decision-making. We envisioned a safe, just, and sustainable world for all in which environmental health and human rights are CENTRAL to a business’s bottom line.

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The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs 2020: Are Fund Managers Asleep at the Wheel?

As we publish our 2020 report, CEO pay is receiving intense political focus. When company performance is considered, the most overpaid CEOs are disproportionately overpaid.

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Clean200 2020 Update: Investing in a Clean Energy Future

We are pleased to present the 2020 Carbon Clean 200™ list of publicly traded companies that are leading the way with solutions for the transition to a clean energy future.

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2019 Pesticides in the Pantry: Transparency & Risk in Food Supply Chains

Farming has not always required the intensive use of chemicals that constrains our farmers today. Humans have been growing food for over 10,000 years; it is only over the past 60 years that we have become dependent on a complicated and costly system of pesticide use.

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2019 Shareholder Action Review

As You Sow® engaged with companies on 93 resolutions in the 2019 proxy season. It is with immense gratitude to YOU — our share authorizers, donors, supporters, colleagues, and community — that we offer this summary of those engagements.

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Proxy Voting Guidelines 2019

The Guidelines are designed to be handed off to your investment advisor or proxy voting service, or you can use them to help you vote your own proxies.

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Proxy Preview 2019

Proxy Preview is the #1 resource for shareholders looking to align their values and corporate engagement.

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The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs 2019: Are Fund Managers Asleep at the Wheel?

This 2019 study is the fifth report of our research results. During these five years, what has changed? Quite a bit, and not enough. Significantly, more large shareholders are voting against more CEO pay packages. Those who are not are more isolated and defensive.

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Proxy Voting Guidelines 2018

If you’re an investor seeking to align your voting with your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles, download Proxy Voting Guidelines 2018 today. You will find recommendations to help you vote your shareholder proxy ballot, covering critical issues such as climate change, environmental health, and executive compensation.

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Aligning Defined Contribution Plans With Corporate Sustainability Goals

As millennial-aged employees now represent the majority of the U.S. workforce, it is increasingly important that corporate management finds ways to engage them in the company. Creating defined contribution plans which connect to their core values – like solving human, social and environmental problems through their work and investments – can spur employee engagement and spark innovation.

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Clean200 2017 Q3 Update: Investing in a Clean Energy Future

One year to the day from the launch of our first Clean200 report, and eight months into the new US administration, we will present our analysis into how large-cap clean energy companies haves performed against dirty energy.

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Roundup Revealed: Glyphosate in Our Food System

Glyphosate, the key ingredient in the widely used herbicide Roundup®, has sparked a battle over the future of food. Over the past decade, it has become the most widely used and heavily applied herbicide in history.

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Proxy Voting Guidelines 2017

If you’re an investor seeking to align your voting with your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles, download Proxy Voting Guidelines 2017 today. You will find recommendations to help you vote your shareholder proxy ballot, covering critical issues such as climate change, environmental health, and executive compensation.

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