BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Duke revise its net zero by 2050 target, and any relevant interim targets, to integrate Scope 3 value chain emissions consistent with guidelines such as the CA100+ and SBTi, or publish an explanation of why the Company does not view inclusion of those emissions as appropriate.
Read MoreRESOLVED: Shareholders request that ExxonMobil's Board of Directors seek an audited report assessing how applying the assumptions of the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero by 2050 pathway would affect the assumptions, costs, estimates, and valuations underlying its financial statements, including those related to long-term commodity and carbon prices, remaining asset lives, future asset retirement obligations, capital expenditures and impairments. The Board should obtain and ensure publication of the report by February 2023, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Church & Dwight Board issue a report describing how the company will reduce plastic packaging, including any planned reduction strategies or goals, materials redesign, substitution, or reductions in use of virgin plastic.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Spectrum report to shareholders on the outcomes of the Company's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts by publishing quantitative data on workforce composition, and recruitment, retention, and promotion rates of employees by gender, race, and ethnicity. The reporting should be done at reasonable expense and exclude proprietary information.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Exelon Corporation (Exelon) report to shareholders on the effectiveness of the Company's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The reporting should be done at reasonable expense, exclude proprietary information, and address outcomes, using quantitative metrics for recruitment, retention and promotion of employees, including data by gender, race, and ethnicity.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Valero's Board of Directors issue an audited report disclosing whether and how applying the assumptions of the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero by 2050 pathway scenario would affect the assumptions, costs, estimates, and valuations underlying its financial statements, including those related to supply and demand, resiliency of assets, remaining asset lives, capital expenditures, and impairments. The Board should produce the report at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that HCA Healthcare, Inc. issue a report at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information disclosing if and how the Company intends to reduce its enterprise-wide operational and supply chain GHG emissions in alignment with the Paris Agreement's 1.5 degree goal requiring net zero emissions by 2050.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that American Express Company (American Express) report to shareholders on the effectiveness of the Company's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. The reporting should be done at reasonable expense, exclude proprietary information, and address outcomes, using quantitative metrics for recruitment, retention, and promotion of employees, including data by gender, race, and ethnicity.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Berkshire Hathaway or its holding companies report to shareholders on the outcomes of their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts by publishing quantitative data on workforce composition, and recruitment, retention, and promotion rates of employees by gender, race, and ethnicity. The reporting should be done at reasonable expense and exclude proprietary information.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Pfizer Inc. (“Pfizer”) report to shareholders on the effectiveness of the Company's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. The reporting should be done at reasonable expense, exclude proprietary information, and address outcomes, using quantitative metrics for recruitment, retention, and promotion of employees, including data by gender, race, and ethnicity.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that AT&T publish a report, at reasonable expense, analyzing the congruence of the Company’s political and electioneering expenditures during the preceding year against publicly stated company values and policies, listing and explaining any instances of incongruent expenditures, and stating whether the Company has made, or plans to make, changes in contributions or communications to candidates as a result of identified incongruencies.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Dow’s Board issue an audited report addressing whether and how a significant reduction in virgin plastic demand, as set forth in Breaking the Plastic Wave’s System Change Scenario to reduce ocean plastic pollution, would affect the Company’s financial position and assumptions underlying its financial statements. The report should be at reasonable cost and omit proprietary information.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that the Board of Directors issue a report, within one year, describing the potential to more rapidly reduce dependence on single use plastic packaging by expanding and supporting refillable bottle systems and infrastructure globally. The report should establish uniform companywide metrics for the company's public reporting on refillables use, and evaluate opportunities for setting aggressive refillables goals and deadlines.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board issue a report, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, evaluating and disclosing if and how the company has met the criteria of the Net Zero Indicator, including scope 3 use of product emissions, or whether it intends to revise its policies to be fully responsive to such Indicator.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Costco adopt an enterprise wide policy to phase out the use of medically important antibiotics in its private label chicken supply chain (including routine use for disease prevention) with an exception for treatment and non-routine control of diagnosed illness.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Visa Inc (Visa) report to shareholders on the outcomes of the Company's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts by providing quantitative metrics and data on the recruitment, retention and promotion rates of employees by gender, race, and ethnicity. The reporting should be done at reasonable expense and exclude proprietary information.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Sysco issue a report within a year, and annually thereafter, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, disclosing short, medium, and long term greenhouse gas targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s goal of maintaining global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius, and progress made in achieving them. This reporting should cover the Company’s full scope of operational and product related emissions.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that AutoZone, Inc. issue a report within a year, and annually thereafter, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, that discloses short, medium, and long term GHG gas reduction targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s goal of maintaining global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius, and progress made in achieving them. Reporting should cover the company’s full range of operational and product related emissions.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that the Board prepare a report, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, on the environmental and social benefits of making Company devices more easily repairable by consumers and independent repair shops.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) report to shareholders on the outcomes of the Company's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. The reporting should be done at reasonable expense, exclude proprietary information, and provide quantitative metrics and data on the retention and promotion rates of employees by gender, race, and ethnicity.
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