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  • Oracle rejects climate proposal on retirement fund investments

    21 November 2024

    After 5% shareholders voted in favour of report on the protection of 401(k) investments from climate-related financial risks

  • Strong investor support for twin environmental disclosure proposals at General Mills

    02 October 2024

    Shareholder resolutions requesting reports on packaging and regenerative agriculture received 40% and 28% of the vote at the company's AGM

  • Shifting the needle on circularity strategy, from packaging to infrastructure

    14 August 2024

    As You Sow's 2024 strategy for improving companies' recycling policies

  • Fox fights back, after NGO calls for disclosures on the risks of misleading news coverage

    10 July 2024

    Company requests SEC exclude proposal, claiming the resolution is based on a 'vague and indefinite' statement and pertains to 'ordinary business'

  • ExxonMobil rebuffs reporting proposals amid dispute with environmental groups

    07 June 2024

    Shareholders reject resolutions on social and environmental disclosures, after company's criticisms of shareholder advocacy groups

  • Chubb rejects disclosures on financed and facilitated emissions

    23 May 2024

    Shareholder resolution voted down, and similar proposals rejected at Travelers and Berkshire Hathaway

  • Cola giants vote against health risk disclosures

    09 May 2024

    Proposals for reports on the health risks associated with non-sugar sweeteners rejected at Coca-Cola and PepsiCo's AGMs

  • Weeding out pesticide usage - through disclosure resolutions

    02 May 2024

    Investor advocacy groups urge companies to measure and disclose the risks of their pesticide usage and the benefits of regenerative agriculture

  • ExxonMobil bites back at disclosure resolutions

    17 April 2024

    And rails against shareholder advocacy groups in proxy memo

  • Unravelling influence: Proxy votes on political spending disclosures

    10 April 2024

    Shareholder resolutions request more disclosures on companies' lobbying activities and political donations