The resolution, filed by US non-profit As You Sow, asks BlackRock for “the board’s perspective” on how its “governance and management systems should be altered, if at all, to fully implement the New Statement of Purpose”. Read More →
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New York State and the UK’s Church Commissioners will vote against the entire board of ExxonMobil again this year in response to the US oil giant’s continued “recalcitrant” approach to climate change. Read More →
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Blackrock has become the latest US financial giant seeking to evade a shareholder proposal calling on it to outline how it will make good on its recent Business Roundtable commitments. Read More →
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BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is being called upon in a shareholder proposal to report on how it plans to “fully implement” the recent ‘Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation’ put out by US trade group the Business Roundtable, which was signed by Blackrock’s Chairman and CEO Larry Fink.
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