Shareholders are asking the world’s largest AI companies - Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet – how they are ensuring compatibility between skyrocketing electricity use at data centers and their climate commitments.
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Shareholders of The Travelers Companies will vote on a resolution asking the company to explain how its aggressive price increases and reduction of geographic coverage in response to growing climate-related damages will affect the sustainability of its homeowners insurance business.
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Investors are calling on Wells Fargo to provide a comprehensive assessment and disclosure of climate-related litigation risks to assess it’s risk management strategy, especially as benchmarked against other banks that have climate goals and transition plans in place.
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As You Sow today warned that new climate data by five major scientific organizations confirmed 2025 as marking a decisive turning point pushing the global three-year average temperature above 1.5°C for the first time. Warming temperatures and related climate change continues to have a negative and growing impact on the economy.
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In resolutions filed with Travelers and Chubb, As You Sow asks insurers to explain if and how it can maintain a viable homeowners insurance business as catastrophic climate-related weather events increase payouts.
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Microsoft investors will get a second chance to voice their support for a proposal asking the Company to assess risks related to the use of its artificial intelligence technologies for facilitating new oil and gas development and production.
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A new report authored by As You Sow and Sierra Club shows that with strategic action by tech companies and utilities, the AI boom can be a tool for progress to advance the clean energy transition.
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Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ruled that Travelers Companies must face a shareholder resolution on climate risk filed by shareholder representative As You Sow.
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Today, the SEC released shareholder representative As You Sow’s response to Travelers’ “No Action” challenge to its climate related resolution.
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Wells Fargo recently announced a poorly reasoned decision to end its greenhouse gas reduction targets, setting the stage for the financing of high carbon companies unbounded by greenhouse gas limits or goals – an outcome likely to contribute significantly to climate harm.
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Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) shareholders will cast their vote on a proposal asking the company to report on actions it is taking to protect employees’ retirement savings from the growing economic consequences of climate change.
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Today, as part of its Climate Finance Day event, with a live audience and livestream, the shareholder representative organization, As You Sow released a new report titled, Climate Inflation - How Extreme Weather is Driving Up the Price of Food.
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Constellation Brands released vote totals showing that approximately 25% of shareholders voted in support of stronger emissions goals and a transition towards a circular economy for packaging, two primary and urgent concerns for shareholders and the company.
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Late Monday, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed ExxonMobil Corporation’s lawsuit against Arjuna Capital. The dismissal marks what should be the end of an inglorious saga for Exxon, which filed the lawsuit in response to the submission of a shareholder proposal by Arjuna rather than seeking exclusion through the normal Securities and Exchange Commission process.
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Today, Tesla Inc. (NYSE: TSLA) shareholders will vote on a proposal, filed by shareholder representative As You Sow, asking Tesla to adopt a deep-sea mining moratorium. Tesla has yet to take a public stand on the controversial issue of deep-sea mining, in stark contrast to peers, including BMW, Volvo, Volkswagen, Rivian, and Renault, which have each signed a moratorium. A similar proposal voted on at the General Motors shareholder meeting on June 4 received 12% support, a solid vote of support for this new issue.
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Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust held a hearing on investors’ action to address climate change, the latest chapter of a protracted investigation into what the Judiciary Committee majority alleges are antitrust violations among investors responding to the severe economic threat posed by climate change. The Committee has targeted As You Sow and 13 other organizations with an investigation. Arjuna Capital, Ceres, and CalPERS were called as witnesses in today’s hearing.
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Today, 12% of General Motors (NYSE: GM) shareholders voted in support of the first-ever deep-sea mining proposal, a strong vote for a first-of-its-kind proposal that allows it to be filed again next year, if necessary. Filed by shareholder representative As You Sow, the proposal asks General Motors to disclose its policies on the use of deep-sea mined minerals across its supply chain, a request timed to coincide with the company’s expanding production of new electric models to meet emissions requirements and growing customer demand for electric vehicles.
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Vote totals were released last Wednesday, May 31, for Exxon’s 2024 Annual General Meeting. The meeting was unique for both its tone and substance, with Exxon openly vilifying and disparaging its investors for asking questions about the future direction of the company.
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Today, Chubb Ltd., one of the world’s leading insurers, announced shareholder support of 28.7% for a shareholder proposal calling on the insurer to measure and disclose greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from its underwriting, insuring, and investment activities in high-carbon companies including fossil fuels. The resolution was filed by investor representative As You Sow and Green Century Capital Management.
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