“‘Communications on material issues central to informed investor decision making is the underpinning of our free market system,’ said Andy Behar, the chief executive of the prominent shareholder activist organization As You Sow.” Read More →
Read More“‘In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors who asked, ‘As we shift away from fossil fuels, what should we invest in?’ Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow and report co-author, said in a statement. ‘A decade later, the Clean200 continues to demonstrate that the global economy is increasingly driven by companies delivering solutions that reduce dependence on fossil fuels and resource-intensive systems.’” Read More →
Read More“Ultimately, Behar said, limiting small investors’ options for holding corporations accountable removes incentives for those companies to constructively engage with advocates. ‘Companies generally sit down with us,’ he said, noting that As You Sow had more than 100 such engagements last year alone. ‘It’s all part of a process.’” Read More →
Read More“The SEC ‘was founded in 1934 to provide communication between shareholders — to create trust between companies and their beneficial owners — and now they are no longer going to be helping shareholders,’ said Andy Behar, the CEO of As You Sow, in an interview.” Read More →
Read More“As You Sow has led a chorus of critics after the SEC reversed its long-standing practice of allowing smaller shareholders to file Notices of Exempt Solicitation on the SEC’s EDGAR system, calling the move a ‘significant setback for shareholder democracy and informed capital markets.” Read More →
Read More“Andy Behar, CEO of As You Sow warned that ‘restricting exempt solicitations to the few largest investors harms the core tenets of capitalism – information and trust between corporations and their beneficial owners’.” Read More →
Read More“As You Sow said the new policy ‘risks chilling legitimate shareholder speech and weakens the fundamentals of a strong market.’” Read More →
Read MoreAndy Behar, CEO of As You Sow, stated, “Verizon’s shareholders applaud the California Public Utilities Commission’s decision. We have analyzed data from over 1,600 companies spanning five years and know that greater workforce diversity leads to financial outperformance.” Read More →
Read More“Shareholder advocacy nonprofit As You Sow said Friday that a potential repeal of Rule 14a-8, and potential changes to the shareholder proposal process, ‘entirely ignores the financial benefits and pecuniary outperformance resulting from shareholder proposals.’ " Read More →
Read More"‘Costco's commitment to tackle deforestation in its avocado supply chain represents meaningful progress on an urgent environmental risk,’ Elizabeth Levy, As You Sow biodiversity programme coordinator stated." Read More →
Read More“‘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 →
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