Climate Change

Corporate emissions, transition plans, and climate lobbying.

14 campaigns on this issue

• As You Sow (As You Vote) at All portfolio companies covered by the guidelines
  As You Sow · All portfolio companies covered by the guidelines · 2026 · A standing voting policy rather than a single engagement, so it has no vote or outcome of its own. The guidelines are offered as rules-based automated votes on the Broadridge Proxy Edge, iconik and Tumelo platforms, and to individual investors on iconik.
• Climate Action 100+ investor signatories at ExxonMobil on emissions targets and transition disclosure
  Climate Action 100+ · ExxonMobil · 2025 · Not settled for 2025. Climate Action 100+'s company assessment page for ExxonMobil refuses every request and the Internet Archive returns the same refusal, and the benchmark's own downloadable data for the 2024 and 2025 rounds is refused by the same server, so the June 2025 findings this row asserted cannot be evidenced. What is documented: Majority Action's exempt solicitation filed with the SEC on May 10, 2023 applies the Climate Action 100+ Net Zero Company Benchmark to ExxonMobil and records that the company's medium and short-term emissions expectations are not treated as commitments under the benchmark, that its medium-term target excludes the most relevant Scope 3 emissions, that none of its interim targets are aligned to 1.5 degrees, and that it has met none of the disclosure indicators for capital allocation.
• ICCR member investors at 60 companies on lobbying and political spending disclosure, 2025
  ICCR member investors · AbbVie, Air Products · 2025 · Expanded disclosure was agreed and the resolutions withdrawn at eight companies, and the proposals were due to appear on the proxy ballots of six companies at annual meetings in spring 2025.
• Follow This at Shell
  Follow This · Shell Plc · 2024 · Voted on as resolution 23 at the annual general meeting in London on May 21, 2024 and not carried. Shell's own poll results report 735,224,835 votes for, 18.62 percent, and 3,213,314,502 against, 81.38 percent, with 122,002,084 votes withheld; the votes cast represented 61.92 percent of the issued capital. The filer reported the result as 19 percent, down from 20 percent in 2023.
• As You Sow on behalf of Warren Wilson College at Lennar
  As You Sow · Lennar · 2024 · Voted at Lennar's annual meeting on 10 April 2024 and not approved: 102,987,584 votes for and 393,975,195 against, which is 20.7 percent of the votes cast for and against.
• Ran a six-year Sustainable Proteins engagement with 23 global food retailers and manufacturers (now closed/succeeded)
  FAIRR Initiative · Ahold Delhaize, Amazon.com Inc., Carrefour · 2024 · Closed after six consecutive years and succeeded by FAIRR's Protein Diversification Engagement. Phase 6 was supported by 84 investors representing US$23 trillion in combined assets.
• Sierra Club Foundation at Wells Fargo on phasing out new fossil fuel financing, 2023
  Sierra Club Foundation · Wells Fargo · 2023 · 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.
• Green Century Capital Management at Bloomin' Brands, Home Depot
  Green Century Capital Management · Bloomin' Brands, Home Depot (The) · 2023 · Approved at both companies, in different seasons. At Bloomin' Brands' annual meeting on May 18, 2021 the proposal drew 53,129,743 votes for, 16,632,424 against, 477,388 abstaining and 7,191,198 broker non-votes, which is 76.16 percent counting only votes for and against. At Home Depot's annual meeting on May 19, 2022 it drew 469,758,767 for, 256,769,584 against, 7,748,621 abstaining and 143,770,510 broker non-votes, which is 64.66 percent.
• As You Sow at Chevron on net zero 2050 accounting, 2022
  As You Sow · Chevron Corporation · 2022 · 38.7 percent in favor at the May 25, 2022 annual meeting: 536,473,054 for, 851,102,680 against, 17,046,222 abstentions and 255,146,992 broker non-votes. It was item 6 on the proxy card.
• Mercy Investment Services at Chevron on the reliability of methane disclosures, 2022
  Mercy Investment Services · Chevron Corporation · 2022 · Approved at the May 25, 2022 annual meeting with 98.0 percent in favor: 1,361,323,529 for, 28,220,990 against, 15,077,437 abstentions and 255,146,992 broker non-votes. It was item 7 on the proxy card, and Chevron's board recommended a vote for it, which is why the margin is so wide.
• Christian Brothers Investment Services at ExxonMobil on net zero 2050 accounting, 2022
  Christian Brothers Investment Services · ExxonMobil · 2022 · 51.0 percent in favor at the May 25, 2022 annual meeting: 1,212,862,208 for, 1,167,183,242 against, 241,366,778 abstentions and 763,701,622 broker non-votes. It was item 8 on the ballot. ExxonMobil reports percentages on votes cast, and under New Jersey law abstentions are not votes cast. Grist reported 52 percent on the day from preliminary figures.
• Green Century Capital Management at Travelers, The Hartford and Chubb on underwriting new fossil fuel supply, 2022
  Green Century Capital Management · Travelers Companies (The), Hartford (The), Chubb Limited · 2022 · 13.2 percent in favour at Travelers' annual meeting on 25 May 2022, as Item 6: 25,512,481 for, 167,325,148 against, 2,361,292 abstaining and 19,306,309 broker non-votes. Green Century filed similar proposals at The Hartford and Chubb, which it says had similar results.
• ICCR member investors on climate lobbying at 21 companies, 2022
  ICCR member investors · United Parcel Service, Alphabet Inc., FedEx · 2022 · Sixteen of the 21 proposals were withdrawn in exchange for corporate commitments that met the proposals' requests. Where the Paris alignment proposal reached a vote it was rejected each time: Honeywell, 25 April 2022, 204,987,160 for and 313,950,913 against, about 40 percent; UPS, 5 May 2022, 432,987,745 for and 869,820,738 against, about 33 percent; Alphabet, 1 June 2022, 113,506,023 for and 482,661,112 against, about 19 percent.
• ICCR member investors on climate lobbying at five companies, 2021
  ICCR member investors · Norfolk Southern, Delta Air Lines, ExxonMobil · 2021 · Majority votes at all five companies, each certified by the company's own Form 8-K. Norfolk Southern, 13 May 2021: 143,817,090 for and 44,333,194 against, about 76 percent. ExxonMobil, 26 May 2021: 1,752,779,954 for and 992,506,297 against, certified as 63.8 percent. United Airlines Holdings, 26 May 2021: 103,084,540 for and 54,527,783 against, about 65 percent. Delta Air Lines, 17 June 2021: 225,669,077 for and 132,799,058 against, about 63 percent. Phillips 66, 12 May 2021: 195,837,321 for and 117,573,625 against, about 63 percent.

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