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No-action requests: the SEC’s careful balancing act

Thus far, the SEC has primarily protected shareholder interests, making it harder for companies to avoid climate-related proposals

By Atharva Deshmukh

SEC ‘no action’ requests: the justifications

How do companies justify avoiding a climate-related shareholder proposal?

Shell’s scope 3 emissions face scrutiny in fractious AGM

Shell's 2023 AGM drew focus on the oil giant's energy transition strategy but shareholders rejected a resolution demanding clearer commitments for Scope 3 emission targets.

Investment Manager

Stewardship and engagement: the passive funds conundrum

Engagement

SEC ‘no-action’ requests: The issues companies don’t want to discuss

Investment Manager

Hollow words: Stewardship leads show continuing scepticism over offsets

Shell’s upcoming AGM showcases the challenges for shareholder activism

Activist asset owners are gearing up to oppose the reappointment of Shell’s chair and challenge over shortcomings in the oil giant’s climate targets

By Mona Dohle

Proxy season with a twist: The rise of the activist shareholder

No to net zero: Climate motions in America’s banking space seem doomed to fail

BP shareholders dismiss net zero push during messy AGM

Asset owners up their game with increasingly sophisticated stewardship strategies

The pressure is on: More and more investors demand transparency on climate lobbying

Climate motions do not stand a chance in Canada’s banking space

Banking

Green discomfort for UBS board as sustainability dominates AGM

Sustainability

Proxy Preview: who and what to look out for this season

Policy

Net zero focus in France growing as climate motions hit corporates

All eyes on brown spinning: do banks have a net zero duty to act?

A shareholder resolution at RBC is taking aim tomorrow at 'brown spinning', reflecting investor concerns over carbon-intensive assets

Policy

Weekend Read: Black is the new green as anti-ESG sentiment swells

Engagement

Woodside board pushes back against activist shareholders

Pensions

Better policymaking will stop short-termism from holding back net zero

Insurance

Vincent Damas: ‘We don’t pretend to be cleverer than the IEA or IPCC’

Pensions