And just last month, after years of pressure from
the shareholder advocacy group As You Sow, McDonald's agreed to phase out polystyrene cups in its U.S. restaurants.
Investors have filed a record number of shareholder proposals on ESG issues this year, with a focus on climate change and corporate political activity, according to the As You Sow
shareholder advocacy group.
The three members, Ellen Futter, David Cote and James Crown, for whom
shareholder advocacy group ISS had urged shareholders to withhold support, garnered less than 60 percent support each..
Not exact matches
In addition, our approach to connecting business with social change is based on addressing the priorities of a wide range of stakeholders including employees, business partners,
shareholders, government regulators,
advocacy groups and consumers.
But Mercer Bullard, professor of law at the University of Mississippi Law School and founder of Fund Democracy, an
advocacy group for mutual fund
shareholders, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday that «the plaintiffs have hurt their cause by delaying» filing a suit until now.»