The future of financial reporting for environmental, social and governance investing arrived with a bang at the chicken farms of Mississippi last month.
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In the history of the earth’s climate two years is a infinitesimal blip, but in the recent history of investor-led efforts to push for action on climate change from corporations, two years has meant a great deal.
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Many auto companies aren't doing enough to monitor whether the cobalt in their electric vehicle batteries could be linked to child labor and other human rights abuses, according to a report released this week.
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Nine years after the implementation of a law requiring publicly traded companies to ensure their raw materials don’t come from mines that use child labour or fund warlords or corrupt soldiers, companies’ efforts to comply continue to fall short.
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Barely a dozen proposals on environmental issues put forward by shareholders reached a vote across 1,500 of the largest US companies, raising questions about institutional investors’ determination to push for meaningful corporate action on climate change.
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Consumer goods giant Unilever has committed to halving the new plastic for its goods by 2025 — a goal that would cut its use to 386,000 tons of new plastic each year from around 772,000 tons in 2018.
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Even if you’re not ready to cut back on flying, there are other ways you can have a personal and positive impact on the environment.
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BlackBerry Ltd. shares closed 23% lower Tuesday, after the cybersecurity company posted another loss for its second quarter, while revenue fell short of estimates, in a report that included the prominent use of nonstandard numbers.
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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has his fair share of critics on the left and among the larger public, but last week he added close to 200 CEOs to a list of those who might have reason to hold something against him, and all it took was five words.
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This summer, some of the world’s biggest companies quietly abandoned one of the key tenets of US capitalism for the last half century or so – the primacy of shareholders, or the idea that companies primarily exist to serve the needs of shareholders.
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With the oil industry continuing to invest heavily in projects all but assured to lose money as the world moves toward a lower-carbon economy, as a study published last week shows, investors may increasingly turn to shareholder lawsuits to protect their investments.
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A series of deadly mass shootings in August have led to advocates and some voters yet again demanding action from lawmakers to help curb gun violence.
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Recent mass shootings have prompted major retailers like Walmart to reconsider their stance on ammunition sales and open carry policies.
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From grocery bags to plastic containers to packing peanuts made of foam, packaging from plastic is said to be changing the world, and not for the better.
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The U.S. throws away about $11.4 billion worth of recyclable items and packaging every year, according to a report published by San Francisco-based As You Sow, a nonprofit organization that promotes corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy
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Hugh Jackman, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Becky G join Global Citizen in campaigns to push world leaders into enacting policy changes that would end extreme poverty around the globe.
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With the cacophony of discussion around how to make fashion ‘sustainable’ and ‘circular’ it’s easy to lose sight of the sector’s other pressing issues.
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U.S. companies were more willing to engage with shareholders on certain environmental and social proposals this proxy season — a trend proponents hope will continue.
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When the Trump administration announced its plans to roll back regulations that cut methane pollution—a greenhouse gas more potent than CO2—from oil and gas companies, even some oil and gas companies said that they didn’t want that to happen.
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Your first impression of Diane Wilson and her brigade of volunteer environmental activists might be that they're aging hippies, still fighting the establishment.
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