Large food companies are increasingly worried about the broad impact they have on the environment.
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Shareholders at two of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers are urging the companies to adopt polices to reduce their impact on climate change.
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Among the $46.6 trillion of U.S. professionally managed assets at the end of 2017, $12 trillion – roughly 26% – was earmarked for sustainable investing, according to data from US SIF.
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It is a new sound. In the last month of May, the period in which the oil sector holds its annual meetings for shareholders, climate change was high on the agenda almost everywhere.
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"Molecules of U.S. freedom.” “Freedom gas.”
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Exxon and Chevron shareholders rejected a series of climate change-related proposals at the companies’ annual investors meetings on Wednesday.
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Exxon Mobil shareholders Wednesday voted down a proposal that would have required the board chair be independent from the company.
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Active shareholders are working to make the world a happier, healthier more sustainable world.
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Did you get a 7% raise last year? Congratulations, yours was in line with what CEOs at the biggest companies got.
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he proxy season is in full swing and the results on 75 climate-related resolutions are… mixed.
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Climate change-related proposals met with mixed results at British Petroleum’s annual shareholder’s meeting on Tuesday.
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Gender lens investing strategies have boomed in recent years, fueled by the #MeToo movement, increased awareness about how women often are treated, and a recognition that companies benefit when diversity and inclusion is fostered.
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At BP’s annual meeting today, investors holding billions in shares, including six of the largest fund managers in the U.K., asked the company to adopt a climate resolution in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement.
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Along a tree-lined stream in Preston County, the energy industry is changing the legacy that commerce leaves on our environment.
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Oakland, California—May 14, 2019—The biggest Dutch investor, Aegon Netherlands and Aegon Asset Management Netherlands, announced this week its support for nine shareholder climate resolutions, including As You Sow’s Chevron Paris-aligned business transition proposal and a petrochemical resiliency proposal filed with Exxon.
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Big investment firms are again using their vast stock holdings to pressure corporate executives over everything from boardroom diversity and political activity to food waste and plans to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Uber may be tech’s IPO headliner in 2019, but plenty of noteworthy warm-up acts are contributing to a banner year in initial public offerings.
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Several of the largest producers of the fossil fuel feedstocks used to make plastics are being pressured by investors to explain what the companies are doing to reduce plastic waste in the world's oceans and waterways.
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Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is a controversial method used to extract natural gas and oil from shale rock formations.
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Investors' efforts to get energy and utility companies to set greenhouse gas reduction targets and disclose their plans for meeting those goals are facing more hurdles now than in the past five years.
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