As You Sow® conducted 185 corporate engagements in the 2024 proxy season. It is with immense gratitude to YOU – share authorizers, donors, supporters, colleagues, and community – that we offer this impact review. Thank you for participating in creating this impact. The credit for these successes is yours.
Read MoreThis Plastic Promises Scorecard measures corporate ambition and action across six critical pillars of plastic packaging pollution prevention with the goal of reducing plastic pollution by creating a circular economy for plastic packaging.
Read MoreLinking greenhouse gas emission reduction targets to executive compensation is one important lever by which CEOs can be incentivized to achieve timely and systematic progress on climate. This second edition of the Pay for Climate Performance report analyzes how effectively 100 of the largest U.S. companies by market capitalization, across 11 sectors of the economy, are currently linking GHG emissions reduction incentives to CEO remuneration. These 100 companies collectively represent a market capitalization of $28 trillion.
Read MoreProponents have filed at least 527 shareholder resolutions on environmental, social and related sustainable governance issues for the 2024 proxy season. This is down by only a few from 536 last year at the same time. It still seems possible the total will reach 630, as it did in both 2023 and 2022. Some of the most notable new proposals ask . . .
Read MoreThe Clean200 lists the 200 major corporate players from 35 countries around the world that are at the forefront of this transition. These are the companies that are leading the way by putting sustainability at the heart of their products, services, business models and investments, helping to move the world onto a more sustainable trajectory.
Read MoreWhat is the association between the workforce diversity of publicly traded companies and the financial performance of these companies? We ask this question-
Read MoreFor the past nine years, As You Sow has issued a report identifying the 100 Most Overpaid CEOs among the companies in the S&P 500 index and analyzed the voting practices of large financial managers, mutual funds, and pension funds. For its 10th year, we identify the Overpaid CEOs at annual meetings held between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023.
Read MoreFarming has not always required the intensive use of chemicals that constrains our farmers today. Humans have been growing food for over 10,000 years; it is only over the past 60 years that we have become dependent on a complicated and costly system of pesticide use.
Read MoreThe scorecard presents an assessment of the progress made by 100 of the largest U.S. corporations in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to align with the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. These corporations collectively represent a market capitalization of $21 trillion across all 11 sectors of the economy.
Read MoreAs You Sow® conducted 210 corporate engagements in the 2023 proxy season. It is with immense gratitude to YOU – share authorizers, donors, supporters, colleagues, and community – that we offer this summary. Thank you for participating in creating this impact. The credit for these successes is yours.
Read MoreThe Clean200 lists the 200 major corporate players from 35 countries around the world that are at the forefront of this transition. These are the companies that are leading the way by putting sustainability at the heart of their products, services, business models and investments, helping to move the world onto a more sustainable trajectory.
Read MoreFor the past nine years, As You Sow has issued a report identifying the 100 Most Overpaid CEOs among the companies in the S&P 500 index and analyzed the voting practices of large financial managers, mutual funds, and pension funds.
Read MoreWhat is the association between the workforce diversity of publicly traded companies and the financial performance of these companies? We ask this question because there are indications that discrimination in the workplace is pervasive and that this pervasive discrimination is at odds with the best interests of publicly traded companies.
Read MoreLinking greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets to compensation is one important means by which CEOs can be incentivized to achieve timely and systematic progress on climate. This report is a first step in assessing how effectively companies are currently linking GHG emissions reduction incentives to CEO pay.
Read MoreAs You Sow® conducted 188 corporate engagements in the 2022 proxy season. It is with immense gratitude to YOU – share authorizers, donors, supporters, colleagues, and community – that we offer this summary. Thank you for participating in creating this impact. The credit for these successes is yours.
Read MoreBetween 2014 and 2017, As You Sow (AYS), a non-profit corporation in California, tested various chocolate products for the presence of cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb). This testing revealed that numerous chocolate products had elevated Cd or Pb concentrations that
Read MoreBetween 2014 and 2017, As You Sow (AYS), a non-profit corporation in California, tested various chocolate products for the presence of cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb).
Read MoreThis report assesses the progress of 55 of the largest U.S. corporations in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with the Paris Agreement’s objective of limiting global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, which requires achieving “net zero” emissions by 2050.
Read MoreThis is the eighth year As You Sow has issued this report and a year where COVID-19 influenced voting outcomes. Shareholder opposition to CEO pay packages increased in the year ended June 30, 2021. CEO pay also continued to increase compared to the previous year.
Read MoreCorporate Knights and As You Sow have released the annual update of the Clean200™ global list of publicly traded companies that are leading the way with solutions for the transition to a clean energy future.
Since our first report was launched in the summer of 2016 a great deal has changed in the world.
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