This proposal calls on Alphabet’s 401(k) team to protect its employees’ life savings from the economic consequences of climate change. Though Alphabet’s climate goals acknowledge climate risk, shareholders and employees ask Alphabet to address retirement assets invested towards climate related financial risks and offer better, climate-safe investment options.
Read MoreIn the rapidly evolving landscape of private equity, the environmental impact of investments is gaining prominence. As PE firms wield their financial clout, they have the potential to either exacerbate or mitigate climate change.
Read MoreAs You Sow has begun to analyze the specifics of whether and how companies include greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets as separate, explicit metrics in their executive compensation plans.
Read MoreThis resolution, requesting an annually updated climate transition report, provides the opportunity for Booking Holdings to establish a comprehensive plan to respond to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Read MoreTo make up for lost demand, Big Oil is allocating significant resources to boost production of petrochemicals – especially plastics. This Hail Mary movement to increase plastics production faces a significant and growing landscape of risks.
Read MorePower utilities are at a juncture where they can continue to slow climate action with regressive lobbying or instead support Paris aligned policy and take advantage of opportunities inherent in the clean energy transition.
Read MoreProposal #3 requests disclosure on whether General Electric will rise to the occasion and meet the criteria of the Net Zero Indicator as laid out in the Climate Action 100+ Net Zero Company Benchmark or, if not, why not.
Read MoreAndrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, teamed up with Illinois Environmental Council and its affiliates, elected leaders, and other experts to offer educational sessions about the issues facing our environment, food systems, infrastructure, and good governance.
Read MoreTisha Schuller sits down with Danielle Fugere, President of As You Sow to learn about shareholder activism from the activist perspective. Shareholder resolutions are increasingly successful in pushing oil and gas companies to address climate concerns on activist terms.
Read MoreIn early May, French company Total, became the latest investor-owned oil and gas company to come out with an ambitious-sounding climate announcement. Total stated its support for the “goals of the Paris Agreement” and an intent “to be consistent with these goals . . . with a view for Total to get to net zero by 2050.”
Read MoreWithout a doubt, electric utilities have made significant progress in recent years in taking actions to reduce the sector’s impact on the climate crisis. Power sector companies are moving away from coal, setting net-zero or other substantial greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
Read MoreIf there is one takeaway from the pain and anguish of COVID-19 it is that we now have dramatic proof that: SCIENCE = LIFE IGNORANCE = DEATH.
Read MoreThe window of opportunity to prevent catastrophic climate change is narrowing. The world is already experiencing harmful impacts surpassing earlier projections, and such harms will only increase as “business as usual” emissions continue.
Read MoreBlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s 2020 annual letter sounds fantastic. It declares that the world’s largest asset manager will prioritize climate risks in investing. It acknowledges that “Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects.
Read MoreAs You Sow is lucky enough to be based in Oakland, California. When Gov. Jerry Brown announced that our neighbor San Francisco would host a Global Climate Action Summit, our ears perked up.
Read MoreAlarm bells have long been ringing about the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”. Opposition has focused on community health impacts from air and water emissions as well as climate change impacts from leaking methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Read MoreThe automotive sector has a key role to play in helping to prevent climate change. Transportation accounts for more than 27 percent of U.S. greenhouse emissions. Given the accelerating pace of climate change and its devastating impacts, greenhouse gas emission reductions by the auto sector.
Read MoreThe United Nations is holding its annual climate change conference in Bonn this week, but the tone this year is different. Driven by a growing litany of harms associated with a warming planet, global governments are getting down to the brass tacks of implementing the Paris Climate Accord.
Read MoreThe Trump administration’s announcement to end the Clean Power Plan increases risk to investors now and into the future. Fossil-fired utilities are the source of one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. is already paying a high public health and economic price from climate change.
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