In an effort to further reduce its use of single-use plastic packaging, PepsiCo has agreed to set a time-bound goal by the end of 2022 for a percent of volume of beverages to be delivered via strategies that avoid or minimize single-use packaging.
Read MoreSeventy-five investors with $4.7 trillion of assets under management Monday sent a letter to the commissioners at the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to express increasing concern about climate change and the systemic and material risk it builds into the global economy.
Read MoreRepresentatives from 175 nations endorsed a historic resolution at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya today to end plastic pollution and negotiate a global, legally binding agreement by 2024.
Read MoreToday, shareholder representative As You Sow released “Road to Zero Emissions: 55 Companies Ranked on Net Zero Progress,” a report ranking companies on their progress in aligning emissions reductions with the 1.5-degree Paris Agreement goal.
Read MoreAs You Sow today released its 8th annual “The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs: Are Fund Managers Asleep at the Wheel?” report, which focuses on how pension and financial fund managers hold companies accountable for excessive compensation.
Read MoreThe Kraft Heinz Co., the third-largest food and beverage company in North America, has agreed to set a goal to reduce total virgin plastic use following the filing of a shareholder proposal and engagement with As You Sow.
Read MoreXponance, Inc., a leading multi-strategy investment firm, and As You Sow, a nonprofit that promotes environmental and social corporate responsibility, today announced that they have formed a new partnership.
Read MoreStudents teams from 12 universities across the U.S. and Canada have entered a head-to-head contest in the Intentional Endowments Network‘s (IEN) Student Corporate Engagement Competition.
Read MoreAfter a four-month analysis of 94 mutual funds and ETFs with “ESG” in their name, a team of University of California, San Diego graduate students concluded that the linguistic patterns found in mutual fund and ETF prospectus language has a relatively low correlation with its ESG rating.
Read MoreA majority of AutoZone shareholders voted Wednesday in favor of an As You Sow resolution requesting the company report on plans to adopt net-zero climate targets and annually disclose progress. The proposal earned a vote of 70.4% representing shareholder support of more than $25 billion in assets.
Read MoreNew testing data released by consumer protection group As You Sow finds cadmium, a non-essential heavy metal, in a range of spinach products.
Read MoreIn a resounding vote of support for climate action, 92% of shareholders supported a Say on Climate resolution filed by shareholder representative As You Sow asking the world’s global foodservice leader, Sysco Corporation, for Paris aligned, net-zero targets, an aligned climate transition plan, and annual reporting of progress.
Read MoreAs You Sow today released an update to its Racial Justice Scorecard and Workplace Equity Scorecard expanding coverage from the S&P 500 to include the Russell 1000.
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