ExxonMobil
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Shareholder advocacy aimed at ExxonMobil
14 recorded campaigns from 8 organizations.
Climate Action 100+ investor signatories at ExxonMobil on emissions targets and transition disclosure
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain, set short, medium and long-term targets covering the most relevant emissions, disclose a decarbonization strategy and capital allocation aligned with it, and align policy engagement with the Paris Agreement. ExxonMobil is one of the focus companies Climate Action 100+ assesses each year against its Net Zero Company Benchmark.
Investors documented by ICCR at ExxonMobil
Vote against board members because the company sued investors who filed a climate shareholder resolution instead of challenging it through the established SEC process.
not stated in source at ExxonMobil
Adopt a policy to avoid development in ecologically sensitive and biologically rich areas such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Oxfam America at ConocoPhillips, Chevron and ExxonMobil
Improve disclosure, including public country-by-country reporting of revenue, profit and tax, to prevent tax avoidance.
Christian Brothers Investment Services at ExxonMobil
Issue an audited report assessing the impact of the IEA Net Zero 2050 scenario on the assumptions, costs, estimates and valuations underlying the company's financial statements.
Christian Brothers Investment Services at ExxonMobil on net zero 2050 accounting, 2022
Seek an audited report assessing how applying the assumptions of the International Energy Agency's Net Zero by 2050 pathway would affect the assumptions, costs, estimates and valuations underlying the company's financial statements, including long-term commodity and carbon prices, remaining asset lives, future asset retirement obligations, capital expenditures and impairments, published by February 2023.
As You Sow at ExxonMobil
Publish an audited report assessing how the IEA Net Zero by 2050 pathway would affect the assumptions underlying the company's financial statements.
BNP Paribas Asset Management at ExxonMobil
Report on how the company's direct and trade association lobbying aligns with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming.
Engine No. 1 at ExxonMobil Corp.
Engine No. 1, an activist investor holding about 0.02% of Exxon's shares, nominated an independent slate of board candidates and asked shareholders to replace directors with people who had experience managing a profitable transition in the energy industry, arguing the existing board lacked the expertise and independence to manage climate-related business risk and to spend capital with discipline.
As You Sow at ExxonMobil
Report on whether and how the company intends to reduce its total carbon footprint in alignment with net zero emissions by 2050.
Mercy Investment Services at ExxonMobil
Publish an annual report on lobbying policies, payments and recipients, including the state-level lobbying and trade association spending that the company's public disclosures leave out.
New York City Comptroller / New York City pension funds (Boardroom Accountability Project) at Multiple companies (72 targeted in 2016; earlier targets included Netflix, Chipotle, and ExxonMobil)
The campaign asked companies to adopt 'proxy access' bylaws letting a group of shareholders who together have owned at least 3% of the company's stock for three or more years nominate up to 25% of the board directly on the company's own proxy ballot.
Trillium Asset Management (presented at the meeting by the Human Rights Campaign on behalf of a coalition of advocacy organizations) at ExxonMobil
Add sexual orientation and gender identity to the company's written nondiscrimination policy and extend equal benefits to same-sex spouses/partners
Trillium Asset Management at ExxonMobil
Add sexual orientation to the company's nondiscrimination policy
How organizations asked shareholders to vote
Positions these organizations published themselves, each linked to where they published it. Nothing here is our view of how to vote.
2026
| Organization | Item | Asks shareholders to vote | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Club | Election of director Michael J. Angelakis (Chair of the Finance Committee) | Against | Published position |
| Sierra Club | Election of director Lawrence W. Kellner (Chair of the Environment, Safety and Public Policy Committee) | Against | Published position |
| Majority Action | Say-on-Pay Proposal (Item 3) | Against | Published position |
| Majority Action | Election of director Michael J. Angelakis (Chair, Finance Committee) | Against | Published position |
| Majority Action | Election of director Lawrence W. Kellner (Chair, Environment/Safety/Public Policy Committee) | Against | Published position |
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