Twitter announced Thursday in a tweet, a pledge to join the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and adopt a clearly defined pathway for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement’s net-zero goal.
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The BlackRock U.S. Carbon Transition Readiness ETF (ticker LCTU) launched last week breaking funding records on its first trading day with $1.25 billion invested.
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After engagement with As You Sow on reducing single use plastic packaging, Keurig Dr Pepper Inc., the third largest non-alcoholic packaged beverage company in North America, has agreed to cut its use of virgin plastic for packaging by 20% by 2025. Keurig Dr Pepper used 208,000 metric tons of plastic packaging in 2018.
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Shareholder representative As You Sow today released a report, “Plastics: The Last Straw for Big Oil?”, addressing the financial and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks of overinvestment in petrochemical infrastructure.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has upheld As You Sow’s shareholder proposal asking Chevron for clear and transparent accounting of how a net-zero greenhouse gas by 2050 scenario will affect its operations and performance.
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Today, Majority Action launched Proxy Voting for 1.5°C World, which outlines a list of systemically important companies in the electricity generation and oil and gas industries that have not set emissions targets aligned to limiting warming to 1.5°C.
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Today, Climate Action 100+ (CA100) released an assessment of the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) polluting companies for progress against its Net-Zero Company Benchmark.
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Shareholder representative As You Sow recently withdrew shareholder proposals at two large U.S. gas and electric utilities, Dominion Energy and DTE Energy.
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Today, CarMax Inc. (CarMax) announced a new goal to achieve net-zero carbon greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — the same as the Paris Agreement.
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Proxy Preview 2021, today released by As You Sow, the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), and Proxy Impact, offers a comprehensive look at hundreds of shareholder resolutions about environmental, social, and sustainable governance (ESG) issues.
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As You Sow, the nation’s leading non-profit shareholder advocacy organization, has launched AS YOU VOTE in partnership with Proxy Impact to enable all shareholders to vote their values.
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Tuesday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) allowed ExxonMobil to reject a shareholder request for clear and targeted reporting on if and how it intends to reduce the risk of stranded assets related to its petrochemical investments like plastics, especially in consideration of the public, market, and governmental responses to plastic pollution, community health, and climate change.
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Valero has introduced a new “Energy Transition performance measure” into its incentive compensation program for executive officers, as requested in a shareholder resolution filed by investor representative As You Sow.
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After engagement with As You Sow on reducing single-use plastic packaging which contributes to ocean plastic pollution, snack and confectionery company Mondelez International and food and beverage giant PepsiCo have agreed to cut their use of virgin plastic for packaging as part of increased efforts to eliminate and replace single-use plastics.
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As You Sow today released two S&P500 scorecards — one assessing companies on racial justice and the other on workplace equity disclosures.
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The Coalition United for a Responsible Exxon (CURE) today issued the following statement in regards to recent disclosures by ExxonMobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) (“Exxon” or the “Company”):
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Citigroup, whose CEO, Jane Fraser, took the helm this morning, today announced in a blog its commitment to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from its financing activities by 2050.
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