Green energy for clean and sustainable environment. Wind energy used in the industry of factories, machines and technologies. Reducing Co2 emissions and limiting global warming and climate change

Shareholder Showdown: High Dissent Shakes Up Woodside Energy and Plus500 

May 16, 2025


By Daniel Kehoe

The 2025 season has marked a clear shift in shareholder engagement strategy, with ‘Vote no’ campaigns emerging as a prominent tool being utilised by

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plastic pollution

May 16, 2025


The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has launched a campaign aimed at questioning Colgate-Palmolive and Walmart on their plastic packaging policies. 

The conservative

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DIVERSITY

Rolls Royce rolls back DEI groups amid pressure from the US

May 7, 2025


Rolls Royce has abandoned its LGBTQ+ and other diversity programmes after coming under pressure from the US government to drop its DEI initiatives.

The company has …

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EY

FRC fines EY £4.9m over ‘failures’ on Thomas Cook audits

April 17, 2024


Six years after the collapse of Thomas Cook with £1.7 billion of debt, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has hit EY with a £4.9 million fine over …

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AGM, voting

Nearly a quarter of BP of investors vote against re-election of chair

April 17, 2025


Nearly a quarter of investors have voted against the BP chair Helge Lund’s re-election, citing concerns over the lack of a shareholder vote on the …

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RPMI Railpen urges government to protect shareholder rights

CII calls for legislation to enhance transparency of multi-class voting

April 11, 2025


The Council of Institutional Investors (CII) has called on the US House Committee on Financial Services to introduce legislation requiring class-by-class disclosure of vote results.

The CII

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virtual meeting, hybrid meeting, shareholder meetings

OECD finds changes to shareholder meetings could reshape corporate governance

April 10, 2025


The way policies and practices for the preparation and conduct of general shareholder meetings are evolving could change essential elements of sound corporate governance, according to the …

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Trump and EU, EU and USA flags above dark sky. Europe Union and United States of America trade, tariffs and political confrontation

Trump orders ban on DEI policies for European companies serving the US government

April 4, 2025


The Trump Administration has issued a letter to several major EU-based companies, urging them to comply with an executive order prohibiting DEI programmes, FT

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Protest

Raiffeisen Bank’s AGM disrupted by protests over ties to sanctioned Russian companies

April 3, 2025


Raiffeisen Bank’s AGM was disrupted by a wave of protests inside and outside the venue, following recent revelations about its transactions with state-linked entities in …

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dual-class share structures, AGM, shareholder proposals

Canada’s Big Six Banks Under Fire: AI, Child Labour Risks & the Push for Energy Transparency

March 27, 2025


Daniel Kehoe and Caoimhe Taylor

As we move into April, the ‘Big Six’ Canadian Banks once again are prominent on shareholder

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