“‘While the AI boom provides exciting opportunities, there are many risks to not approaching energy needs with a deliberate and informed response that takes long term impacts into account,’ Kelly Poole, lead author of the report published this month by shareholder advocacy group As You Sow and environmental organization Sierra Club, said in a briefing with reporters.” Read More →
Read More“As You Sow, a nonprofit shareholder advocacy organization, has its own ‘set it and forget it’ system that allows shareholders to direct their proxy votes toward environmental or social justice issues.” Read More →
Read More“To evaluate a fund’s voting behavior, visit the As You Sow Proxy Voting Tracker. This tool can help you determine whether your fund is engaging in real shareholder advocacy, or greenwashing from the sidelines.” Read More →
Read More“For those seeking to consider a broader range of prison-related stocks, shareholder advocacy nonprofit As You Sow publishes a Prison-Free Funds tool that grades 3,000 US equity funds.’" Read More →
Read More“‘We've been working for five years now filing proposals with the company and having sporadic engagements with them,’ Conrad MacKerron, senior vice president of the nonprofit group As You Sow, told Newsweek." Read More →
Read More“Kelly McBee, a plastic pollution prevention specialist at As You Sow, said the group is targeting beverage and snack companies because ‘most of these companies produce goods that are designed to be consumed on the go or in small quantities, so the scale of their packaging is some of the greatest.’” Read More →
Read More“‘The political situation in the US is deepening trust between companies and their shareholders “as there is a common enemy trying to harm businesses,’ Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, has told Responsible Investor.” Read More →
Read More“Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel for the shareholder advocacy nonprofit As You Sow, said disclosure is a prerequisite for holding banks to their climate goals. ‘We want to understand what it is they’re doing,’ she said. Laws like California’s bring to light the financial instability wrought by fossil fuel-driven climate change and — in theory, at least — discourage financing that would exacerbate it.” Read More →
Read More“According to Cole Genge, director of programs of As You Sow, the emerging deep sea mining (DSM) industry embodies one of the most significant new threats to global biodiversity.
‘As the green transition, including electric vehicle deployment, speeds up, companies like The Metals Company plan to strip-mine the seafloor for nodules containing battery-related minerals,’ said Genge. ‘Supporters of DSM argue that mining deep sea nodules poses fewer risks to climate and biodiversity compared to terrestrial mining.’” Read More →
Read More“In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors saying, ‘If we divest fossil fuels, there is nothing to invest in,’” says Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow and co-author of the Carbon Clean 200 report that accompanies the ranking. “The Clean200 has consistently demonstrated that the ‘clean energy’ future of eight years ago is now the clean energy present. This year, the scale and global diversity of leading companies continue to expand and redefine the term ‘cleantech’ to be any company with products and services that will reduce demand for fossil fuels and water.” Read More →
Read More“First Solar’s commitment leads the way to ensuring that we don’t unwittingly create yet another globally destructive practice,” said Elizabeth Levy, biodiversity program coordinator at As You Sow. “Companies that promote deep sea mining insist that we need deep seabed minerals now to fuel the energy transition; First Solar’s insistence on a precautionary process challenges this false narrative and shows others in the renewable energy industry that we don’t need to exploit the deep sea, potentially irrevocably, for the energy transition to continue.” Read More →
Read MoreAndrew Behar, CEO of advocacy group As You Sow, a frequent resolution filer, says it and partners have filed 55 resolutions so far this year asking companies for things like plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions or plastic packaging. Read More →
Read More“The No. 1 thing is to figure out what you own,” said Andrew Behar, the chief executive of As You Sow. “But frankly, Wall Street doesn’t really want you to know. It is very hard to change when you are profiting from the current system.” Read More →
Read MoreAs shareholder advocates, As You Sow has engaged over a dozen companies including recently Google, asking for disclosures on how they’re protecting employee savings from climate risk. Read More →
Read MoreAs You Sow's report on Costco claimed it wasn't being as transparent as it could be and wasn't holding third-party suppliers to task. While that issue is considered "resolved" with a shareholder request for stricter regulations, just what came of that is unclear. Read More →
Read MoreAs You Sow submitted a shareholder proposal on behalf of Amalgamated Bank requesting information about what it described as an “ambiguous and inconsistent shift in policies and practices regarding its workplace diversity strategy.” Read More →
Read MoreIn a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, As You Sow questioned Microsoft for its self-proclaimed status of a “first mover” on climate change. Read More →
Read MoreExxonMobil sued shareholders, and Danielle Fugere from As You Sow will discuss the implications at the RI USA 2024 panel on December 3 in New York City. Read More →
Read MoreThe proposal – led by As You Sow – called on the manufacturing firm to report on the effectiveness of its efforts to create a meritocratic workplace “where no one is excluded from contributing to the company’s success because of an immutable characteristic, such as gender, race or ethnicity”. Read More →
Read MoreAs You Sow writes that in July of this year Deere ‘announced an ambiguous and inconsistent shift in policies and practices regarding its workplace diversity strategy. If the company has dismantled key [DE&I] policies and practices, this exposes it to financial, competitive, legal and reputational risks.’ Read More →
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