Sentences with phrase «environmental shareholder proposals»

www.proxyimpact.com The Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) provides impartial analysis to help institutions make informed, independent choices on social and environmental shareholder proposals.

Vanguard continues to abstain on political spending and other social and environmental shareholder proposals.

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Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

His practice is focused on shareholder proposals, shareholder rights and improving corporate environmental and social disclosure requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Proxy Preview 2015 report was produced via collaboration between As You Sow, a nonprofit organization that promotes corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy and innovative legal strategies; the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), which conducts impartial research on social and environmental share - holder proposals; and Proxy Impact, a shareholder advocacy and proxy voting service for foundations, endowments and socially responsible investors.

Certain of the shareholder proposals relate to environmental, sustainability, social, or governance issues, often requesting that we prepare a report, adopt a policy, or take some other narrowly or vaguely defined action.

The vote count reached a remarkable level of backing for proposals opposed by management, according to Heidi Welsh, executive director at the Sustainable Investments Institute, a Maryland - based nonprofit that provides impartial analysis of social and environmental policy shareholder resolutions.

«We will explain how shareholder proposals on environmental, social, and corporate governance matters often raise issues with a direct impact on long - term shareholder value (e.g., effective management of climate change risk or encouraging stronger board oversight and independence).

Si2 provides overview reports on the main environmental, social and governance issues raised by activist shareholders in their proposals to companies, as well as impartial breakout reports on the proposals awaiting votes at companies.

Through this portal, issuers will have access to information on Glass Lewis» approach to analyzing proxy issues, including director elections, compensation, financial transactions and shareholder proposals on environmental, social and governance matters, among others.

Courteney Keatinge oversees Glass Lewis» research and vote recommendations for shareholder proposals and covers research on major environmental and social issues in all major markets.

Beginning in 2003, the Division of Corporate Finance too often has issued no - action letters omitting shareholder proposals that ask management to undertake a risk assessment or review the financial implications of an array of environmental, community, public health and human rights concerns and issues.

Shareholder proposals limiting executive pay, environmental issues, and other liberal folderol.

The Wall Street Journal reported that in 2014 «environmental and social issues have accounted for 56 % of shareholder proposals, representing a majority for the first time.»

This policy states that it will «support social, workforce and environmental proposals that promote «good corporate citizenship» while enhancing long term shareholder and stakeholder value and proposals that call for more detailed and comparable reporting of a company's social, workforce and environmental performance».

Of the 433 shareholder proposals filed in 2015, 39 percent or 168 proposals related to environmental or sustainability resolutions.

Given the strictures on shareholder proposals, it's common for investor advocates to push not for specific changes, but for analyses of risk: asking companies to publicly measure their greenhouse gas emissions, to analyze the environmental impact of their global supply chains, or, in a strategy pioneered last year, to quantify their exposure to «stranded assets,» such as fossil fuel reserves that would exceed the world carbon budget.

Analysis by the law firm confirmed that corporate shareholder proposals aimed at addressing environmental issues were common in 2016, a trend that will continue to keep the pressure on fossil fuel interests like Chevron and ExxonMobil during the Trump years — and make it hard for the SEC to avoid addressing the issue.

We also work with public companies to meet SEC environmental disclosure obligations and assist public companies with potential shareholder proposals or lawsuits concerning environmental and social responsibility concerns.

(Bloomberg)-- FivePoint, a real estate developer whose largest shareholder is Lennar Corp., said it's come up with an environmental proposal that should allow it to move forward with a $ 12.7 billion master - planned community in northern Los Angeles County.