New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, has announced that the city has filed a lawsuit against the five largest investor-owned fossil fuel companies as measured by their contributions to global warming.
New York will be seeking damages from BP, …
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Activist institutional investors, the public pension fund CalSTRS and Jana Partners, have begun a campaign calling on the technology giant, Apple, to consider the evidence that children that are excessively using electronic devices, such as its I-phone, may be …
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In the opening remarks of his New Year press conference South Korea’s President, Moon Jae-in promised to push for corporate governance reform through the introduction of a stewardship code and improvements in shareholders’ voting rights.
He admitted that the …
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In its annual review of the pay of FTSE 100 chief executives and average UK employees the High Pay Centre, now working with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), found that by 4th January, dubbed Fat Cat …
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Four of the top ten largest asset managers in the US voted in support of a climate change-related shareholder resolution for the first time ever during 2017 research by Fund Votes for the pressure group, Ceres has found.
The asset …
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Brazilian oil and gas company, Petrobras, has signed an agreement to settle a securities class action lawsuit filed in the US in which the lead plaintiff was UK pension fund, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).
Under the settlement, Petrobras agreed …
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Over 100 shareholders have again requisitioned a resolution calling on the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to establish a shareholder committee in a campaign organised by private investor groups – the UK Individual Shareholders Society (ShareSoc) and the …
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Sri Lanka’s Institute of Chartered Accountants (CA Sri Lanka) recently published its revised Code of Best Practice on Corporate Governance 2017.
Speaking at the launch event outgoing president of CA Sri Lanka Lasantha Wickremasinghe said that good corporate governance …
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As we approach the end of another eventful year, we would like to wish our many clients, friends and partners a very Happy Christmas and Peaceful New Year.
The world of sustainable governance is going through unprecedented change. In the …
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