BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board issue an audited report addressing, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, whether and how a significant reduction in virgin plastic demand, as set forth in Breaking the Plastic Wave’s System Change Scenario for reducing ocean plastic pollution, would affect the Company’s financial position and assumptions underlying its financial statements.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that the McDonald’s Board issue a report, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, describing how the Company will reduce its plastics use by shifting away from single-use packaging in alignment with the findings of the Pew Report, or other authoritative sources, to feasibly reduce ocean pollution.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Universal Health Services Inc. (“Universal Health Services”) report to shareholders on the effectiveness of the Company's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. The report should be done at reasonable expense, exclude proprietary information, and provide transparency on outcomes, using quantitative metrics for hiring, retention, and promotion of employees, including data by gender, race, and ethnicity.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Chevron, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, disclose a recalculated emissions baseline that excludes the aggregated GHG emissions from material asset divestitures occurring since 2016, the year Chevron uses to baseline its emissions.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Chevron issue an audited report addressing whether and how a significant reduction in virgin plastic demand, as set forth in Breaking the Plastic Wave’s System Change Scenario to reduce ocean plastic pollution, would affect the Company’s financial position and assumptions underlying its financial statements. The report should be at reasonable cost and omit proprietary information.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board issue a report, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, disclosing how the Company intends to reduce its full value chain greenhouse gas emissions in alignment with the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C goal requiring Net Zero emissions by 2050.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders of Nordstrom, Inc. (“Nordstrom”) ask the Board to prepare a public report assessing the potential risks to the company associated with its use of concealment clauses in the context of harassment, discrimination, and other unlawful acts. The report should be prepared at reasonable cost and omit confidential information.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that ExxonMobil, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, disclose a recalculated emissions baseline that excludes the aggregated GHG emissions from material asset divestitures occurring since 2016, the year ExxonMobil uses to baseline its emissions.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Chubb issue a report, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, disclosing 1.5oC aligned medium and long-term GHG targets for its underwriting, insuring, and investment activities.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board issue a report, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, disclosing how the Company intends to reduce its Scope 3 value chain greenhouse gas emissions in alignment with the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C degree goal requiring Net Zero emissions by 2050.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Pilgrim’s Pride report on how it will accelerate its efforts to eliminate deforestation from its supply chains so as to achieve independently verified deforestation-free supply chains by 2025.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that The Cheesecake Factory issue a report, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, disclosing how it can achieve deforestation-free commodity supply chains by 2025.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Halliburton Co. (“Halliburton”) report to shareholders on the effectiveness of the Company's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. The report should be done at reasonable expense, exclude proprietary information, and provide transparency on outcomes, using quantitative metrics for hiring, retention, and promotion of employees, including data by gender, race, and ethnicity.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders of Mohawk industries urge the Board of Directors to oversee a racial equity audit analyzing Mohawk’s current DEI policies and practices and their effects on nonwhite stakeholders and communities of color. Input from civil rights organizations, employees, and customers should be considered in determining the specific matters to be analyzed. A report on the audit, prepared at reasonable cost and omitting confidential and proprietary information, should be publicly disclosed on Mohawk’s website.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: the Board of Directors of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (“Chipotle”) shall adopt and disclose a Noninterference Policy (the “Policy”) upholding the rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining in its operations as reflected in the International Labour Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (“Fundamental Principles”). The Policy should contain commitments to the following:
• Non-interference when employees exercise their right to form or join trade union, which includes prohibiting Chipotle from undermining this right or pressuring employees seeking to form or join a trade union;
• Good faith and timely collective bargaining if employees form or join a trade union;
• Where national or local law is silent or differs from international human rights standards, Chipotle will follow the higher standards; and
• Processes to identify, prevent, account for and remedy any practices that violate or are inconsistent with the Policy.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Kinder Morgan publish an audited report, at reasonable expense and omitting proprietary information, disclosing the undiscounted expected value to settle obligations for AROs and addressing how the assumptions of the IEA’s Net Zero by 2050 pathway would affect the estimated remaining useful lives of those assets.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that JP Morgan Chase issue a report disclosing a transition plan that describes how it intends to align its financing activities with its 2030 sectoral greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, including the specific measures and policies necessary to achieve its targets, the reductions to be achieved by such measures and policies, and timelines for implementation and associated emission reductions.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board publish a report, at reasonable expense, analyzing the congruence of Chase’s political and electioneering expenditures during the preceding year against Chase’s publicly stated company values and policies; listing and explaining any instances of incongruent expenditures; and stating whether the company has made, or plans to make, changes in contributions or communications to candidates as a result of identified incongruencies.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Ford Motor Co. (“Ford”) report to shareholders on the effectiveness of the Company's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. The report should be done at reasonable expense, exclude proprietary information, and provide transparency on outcomes, using quantitative metrics for hiring, retention, and promotion of employees, including data by gender, race, and ethnicity.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Texas Roadhouse issue a report, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, disclosing how it can achieve deforestation-free commodity supply chains by 2025.
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