Shareholder demand for rigorous climate action continues to grow with another majority vote this season. As You Sow, a leading non-profit shareholder advocacy organization, filed a resolution with Booking Holdings, the world’s leading provider of global online travel services, calling for a Paris compliant, net-zero transition plan and annual reporting.
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Today at the annual meeting of Caterpillar, 47% of investors supported a shareholder resolution filed by As You Sow asking Caterpillar to disclose whether and how the company is aligning its climate policies and performance with the progress indicators laid out in the Climate Action 100+ Net-Zero Company Benchmark.
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First year shareholder resolutions filed by Christian Brothers Investment Services at ExxonMobil, and by As You Sow at Chevron, will be up for a vote at the companies’ annual general meetings on May 26.
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Thirty-seven percent of investors voted to support a climate lobbying shareholder resolution at Sempra’s annual meeting today, according to preliminary vote numbers.
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Today, 98% of investors voted for a shareholder resolution at General Electric’s annual meeting, according to preliminary numbers.
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Twitter announced Thursday in a tweet, a pledge to join the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and adopt a clearly defined pathway for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement’s net-zero goal.
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The BlackRock U.S. Carbon Transition Readiness ETF (ticker LCTU) launched last week breaking funding records on its first trading day with $1.25 billion invested.
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Shareholder representative As You Sow today released a report, “Plastics: The Last Straw for Big Oil?”, addressing the financial and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks of overinvestment in petrochemical infrastructure.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has upheld As You Sow’s shareholder proposal asking Chevron for clear and transparent accounting of how a net-zero greenhouse gas by 2050 scenario will affect its operations and performance.
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Today, Majority Action launched Proxy Voting for 1.5°C World, which outlines a list of systemically important companies in the electricity generation and oil and gas industries that have not set emissions targets aligned to limiting warming to 1.5°C.
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Today, Climate Action 100+ (CA100) released an assessment of the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) polluting companies for progress against its Net-Zero Company Benchmark.
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Shareholder representative As You Sow recently withdrew shareholder proposals at two large U.S. gas and electric utilities, Dominion Energy and DTE Energy.
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Today, CarMax Inc. (CarMax) announced a new goal to achieve net-zero carbon greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — the same as the Paris Agreement.
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Tuesday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) allowed ExxonMobil to reject a shareholder request for clear and targeted reporting on if and how it intends to reduce the risk of stranded assets related to its petrochemical investments like plastics, especially in consideration of the public, market, and governmental responses to plastic pollution, community health, and climate change.
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Valero has introduced a new “Energy Transition performance measure” into its incentive compensation program for executive officers, as requested in a shareholder resolution filed by investor representative As You Sow.
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