An investor coalition overseeing $10trn in assets have called for urgent action from the consumer goods and grocery retail sector to address the plastic crisis.
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BP shareholders demand tighter climate policy April 15, 2023 Follow This has urged shareholders to support its proposal to align BP’s climate policy with the Paris Agreement after the oil giant lowered targets earlier this year. Ahead of BP’s annual shareholder meeting on April 27, the climate activist group has filed resolution 25 to require […]
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Activist group Follow This files resolutions against oil majors March 2, 2023 International climate campaign group Follow This has filed shareholder resolutions against four of the world’s largest oil and gas companies urging them to take swifter action to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Six institutional asset managers, with a combined €1.3 trillion in assets under […]
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Market Forces say the time has come for investors to publicly withdraw capital from Santos over its “climate failure”
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Banks holding shares on behalf of clients are still responsible for human rights due diligence at the companies whose shares they hold, according to the UN.
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The US investment giant, BlackRock, has stated that is responding to the recent school shooting in the US by engaging with firearms manufacturers and retailers to understand what they are doing to reduce the risk of this kind of event happening again. BlackRock said there are three publicly traded companies in the US whose primary business […]
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There continued to be a focus on executive pay in 2017 by shareholders of FTSE 350 companies data from Manifest for the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s (PLSA) AGM voting review showed. The PLSA stated that the executive pay awards continued to be the most controversial aspect of corporate governance, with the figures of significant remuneration-related […]
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Manifest has released its 2018 voting policy guidelines to clients and announced changes to its research reports to reflect the latest global governance and sustainability developments. AGM reports will now provide more detail on board diversity and pay ratios while Say on Sustainability reports will reflect the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-Related […]
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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 damaged by this and to support parents to control their usage. In an open letter to […]
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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 to pay US$ 2.95 billion to resolve claims in two installments of US$983 million and a last […]
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