Combats climate change
15 campaigns on this issue
- As You Sow (As You Vote) at All portfolio companies covered by the guidelinesAs 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 disclosureClimate 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 members at 60 companies on corporate political activity, 2025ICCR members including United Church Funds, Zevin Asset Management, Trillium Asset Management and the Center for Political Accountability · AbbVie, Air Products · 2025 · Eight resolutions were withdrawn after companies agreed to expanded disclosure, and six were heading to votes at annual meetings that spring. Early in the season Air Products challenged its lobbying resolution at the SEC and, breaking from past practice, the staff sided with the company and allowed the resolution to be omitted, which was followed by more than 13 further successful company challenges on similar arguments.
- ICCR member investors at 60 companies on lobbying and political spending disclosure, 2025ICCR member investors · AbbVie, Air Products · 2025 · Expanded disclosure was agreed and the resolutions withdrawn at eight companies, and the proposals were due to appear on the proxy ballots of six companies at annual meetings in spring 2025.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 ShellFollow 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 LennarAs 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, 2023Sierra 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 DepotGreen 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, 2022As 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, 2022Mercy 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, 2022Christian 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, 2022Green 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, 2022ICCR 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, 2021ICCR 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.
Organizations working on this
Adrian Dominican Sisters
The congregation's Portfolio Advisory Board co-filed a climate proposal at Meta asking how the company will meet its climate targets given AI and data center growth, which drew 22.3 percent independent shareholder support.
Arjuna Capital
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at 9 companies, among them Citigroup and Microsoft between 2018 and 2023.
Backcountry Hunters and Anglers
A mass membership organization of hunters and anglers focused on conserving public lands.
Boston Common Asset Management
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at Alphabet Inc. in 2017.
Ceres
Convenes rather than files. Ceres runs the Ceres Investor Network of institutional investors, including pension funds, foundations and asset managers, which requires a minimum of 150 million dollars under management to join, and it supports those members in their own engagements with named companies through nine working groups and in-house research. It also convenes the investor coalitions Climate Action 100+, Nature Action 100, Food Emissions 50 and the Valuing Water Finance Initiative. Ceres does not file or co-file resolutions in its own name.
Christian Brothers Investment Services
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at Verizon Communications and Wells Fargo & Co. between 2014 and 2019.
Ducks Unlimited
A volunteer-driven waterfowl group that raises money locally to buy, restore and manage wetlands across North America.
Engine No. 1
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at ExxonMobil Corp. in 2021.
Follow This
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at 3 companies, among them Chevron and Shell plc between 2021 and 2023.
Green Century Capital Management
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at 6 companies, among them Amazon and Procter & Gamble between 2020 and 2025.
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
The coalition at the center of faith-based shareholder advocacy in the United States for over fifty years, coordinating member institutions' engagements and resolutions.
Missionary Association of Mary Immaculate
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name.
Natural Resources Defense Council
Campaigns on shareholder votes, for example a press release headed 'P&G Board Members Face Shareholder Vote Over Forest Destruction in Supply Chain', and appears in a notice of exempt solicitation filed with the SEC.
Office of the New York State Comptroller and the New York State Common Retirement Fund
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name.
Sierra Club Foundation
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at 3 companies, among them Citigroup and Wells Fargo in 2022.
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at Dine Brands Global and IHOP) in 2022.
Trillium Asset Management
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at 12 companies, among them CVS Health and Bright Horizons Family Solutions between 2022 and 2026.
Trout Unlimited
An angler-led group that restores cold-water rivers and streams so wild trout and salmon can survive in them.
