shareholder proposal · 2023

Sierra Club Foundation at Wells Fargo & Company

Adopt a policy for a time-bound phase-out of the bank's lending and underwriting to projects and companies engaging in new fossil fuel exploration and development.

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Result: 8.50 percent in favor at the April 25, 2023 annual meeting: 248,827,799 for, 2,629,078,280 against, 49,309,312 abstentions and 349,412,800 broker non-votes. It was item 9 on the ballot and was not approved. Wells Fargo reports the percentage as votes cast for the proposal against the total cast for, against and abstaining.

Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo Shareholders Vote on Proposals Urging Progress on Climate, Indigenous Rights, Sierra Club, 2023

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