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Hess – Carbon Bubble – 2014
Shareholders request Hess to prepare a report by September 2014, omitting proprietary information and prepared at reasonable cost, on the company’s goals and plans to address global concerns regarding fossil fuels and their contribution to … MORE
ExxonMobil – Carbon Bubble – 2014
Shareholders request Exxon Mobil prepare a report by September 2014, omitting proprietary information and prepared at reasonable cost, on the Company’s strategy to address the risk of stranded assets presented by global climate change, including … MORE
CONSOL Energy – Carbon Bubble – 2014
Shareholders request CONSOL to prepare a report by September 2014, omitting proprietary information and prepared at reasonable cost, on the company’s goals and plans to address global concerns regarding fossil fuels and their contribution to … MORE
Chevron – Carbon Bubble – 2014
Shareholders request Chevron to prepare a report by September 2014, omitting proprietary information and prepared at reasonable cost, on the company’s goals and plans to address global concerns regarding fossil fuels and their contribution to … MORE
Anadarko – Carbon Bubble – 2014
Shareholders request Anadarko to prepare a report by September 2014, omitting proprietary information and prepared at reasonable cost, on the company’s goals and plans to address global concerns regarding fossil fuels and their contribution to … MORE
Green Bonds Market Could Grow to $100bn by Next Year – Industry Group
RESPONSIBLE INVESTOR – February 19, 2014 – The international green bonds market could grow to $100bn by the time of next year’s United Nations conference on climate change in Paris, according to the Climate Bonds … MORE
Investor Group Demands Fossil Fuel Companies Disclose Carbon Asset Risk
REUTERS – February 12, 2014 – A group of investors with combined assets of over $200 billion filed shareholder resolutions on Wednesday with ten energy companies, including Exxon Mobil and Southern Co, demanding they disclose … MORE
Students Escalate Divestment Campaign After Universities Refuse to Sell Fossil Fuel Stocks
ECOWATCH – December 12, 2013 – Students across the country are escalating their campaigns for fossil fuel divestment after a number of high profile colleges and universities have rejected measures demanding they sell their stocks.
On Campuses, a Fossil-Fuel Divestment Movement
THE WASHINGTON POST – November 25, 2013 – A divestment movement is marching across U.S. college campuses, borrowing tactics from the 1980s anti-apartheid campaign and using them against oil, gas and coal companies to fight … MORE
Cleantech Redefined
After years in development, cleantech is now going mainstream. Cleantech infrastructure, technology and services are revolutionizing how we make, grow, transport and consume things. They’re helping the world meet energy demands. They’re creating livelihoods and prosperity in uncertain economies. Is there still time for investors to make good returns in cleantech? Yes. Here’s why.
Cutting Carbon on Campus
NUVO – October 7, 2013 – Like many college students, Vesta Davis had no idea in the fall of 2011 when she arrived in Richmond, Ind., as an 18-year-old freshman at Earlham College, what she … MORE
PGE – Climate Change – 2011
In October 2006, a report authored by former chief economist of the World Bank, Sir Nicolas Stern, estimated that climate change will cost between 5% and 20% of global domestic product if greenhouse gas (GHG) … MORE
The Coal Divestment Toolkit: Moving Endowments Beyond Coal
Divestment is the process of selling an asset for either financial or social goals. Divestment is a powerful way to take a stand against companies involved in an activity that is morally reprehensible. This strategy has been used to send a strong message and to force change in corporate policies and governance. Through divestment campaigns, shareholders (the people and organizations that own corporate stock) take responsibility for the actions of the companies they own and demand change or sell their shares. MORE
The Reinvestment Handbook: Green Endowments Initiative
The Reinvestment Handbook is a resource for the next generation of responsible investors. It is designed to help students better understand their university endowment, the key pillars of SRI funds including screening for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, performance of ESG investments, funds, and portfolios, and basic finance concepts. MORE
Corporate Political Spending the Big issue for Proxy Season
RESPONSIBLE INVESTOR – Companies’ spending on political contributions and lobbying has emerged as the big issue for shareholder resolutions in the forthcoming US proxy voting season, according to an authoritative preview from advocacy group As … MORE
After Bubbles in Dotcoms and Housing, Here’s the Carbon Bubble
Press Coverage
RELEASE: Carbon Divestment Does Not Increase Portfolio Risk, New Report Shows
As You Sow Press Release
RELEASE: Investors Ask CONSOL Energy to Report the Risk that 2/3 of Its Coal Reserves May Become Unusable
As You Sow Press Release
RELEASE: Investors Representing Over $1 Billion Ask CONSOL to Address Risks of Carbon Bubble
As You Sow Press Release
Investors Register Support for Groundbreaking Motion on Unburnable Carbon at Coal Firm
RESPONSIBLE INVESTOR – Some of the leading US investors, including the Florida State Board of Administration (SBA), which runs the $128.8bn (€93.5bn) Florida Retirement System, have backed an innovative shareholder proposal on “stranded” fossil fuel … MORE
Staying Afloat as Assets Get Stranded
Press Coverage
CONSOL – Climate Change – 2013
Shareholders request CONSOL to prepare a report on the company’s goals and plans to address global concerns regarding fossil fuels and their contribution to climate change, including analysis of long and short term financial and … MORE
CONSOL Energy
Consol Energy is an American energy company with interests in coal and natural gas production. It is the U.S.’s largest underground coal mining company. As You Sow has engaged with CONSOL Energy on issues related … MORE
Will the Next Bubble Be Made Out of Carbon?
THOMASNET – May 31, 2013 – Concerns about the impact of carbon emissions are beginning to bleed onto the balance sheets of energy companies, even in this country where strategic engagement on the issue has … MORE
Top 5 Actions to Make a Difference in the Fight Against Climate Change
HUFFPOST GREEN – May 21, 2013 – Marjan Minnesma may be the most inspiring person you’ve never heard of, unless you live in the Netherlands as I do. A few years ago, Marjan got fed … MORE
Green Groups Renew Attack On Mining Companies, Citing IEA Study
CLIMATEWIRE – May 16, 2013 – Activist shareholders are asking one of the nation’s largest mining companies to disclose the risks it faces from the potential stranding of billions of short tons of coal in … MORE
Backlash over $6 Trillion Carbon Loss Begins as Investors Call for Action
NEW MODEL ADVISER – May 10, 2013 – A US energy firm is among the first to face a shareholder backlash over unburnable carbon.
Fossil-Free Investment
As institutional investors such as university endowments begin divesting from coal and fossil fuel companies, there is a tremendous opportunity for carbon-free reinvesting to fund energy efficiency and clean technology and to speed the transition … MORE
Carbon Divestment
The United Nations is now calling for investors to validate the financial risk posed by unburnable carbon and climate change by divesting portfolios of fossil fuel stocks. Christina Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the UN … MORE
Electric Utilities Must Reduce Their Climate Risks
THE GUARDIAN – April 16, 2013 – In 2011 and 2012, 43 states were affected by extreme weather events that racked up more than $1bn in damages each.
First-Time Shareowner Resolutions Address Stranded Fossil Fuel Assets
SMART PLANET – March 11, 2013 – As You Sow and the Unitarian Universalist Association have filed shareowner resolutions with two large coal companies, requesting that they report on material impact of reserves that must … MORE
Investors Demand Climate Action, Product Stewardship
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADER – March 8, 2013 – Investors have filed 365 shareholder resolutions this year on environmental and social issues, with 38 percent of the proposals focusing on climate change, energy and corporate sustainability strategies, … MORE
Political Spending, Climate Change Dominate Shareholder Proposals
TRIPLE PUNDIT – March 8, 2013 – As proxy season takes shape in this post-election year, investors are urgently seeking transformation of corporate environmental, social, and governance policies.
Investors Asserting Concerns About Climate Change and Energy, Report Says
SUSTAINABLE BRANDS – March 7, 2013 – A record number of investors have filed shareholder resolutions on environmental and social issues as part of the Proxy Preview 2013 report released today.
Shareholders File First-Ever ‘Carbon Bubble’ Resolutions
INSIDECLIMATE NEWS – March 7, 2013 – Two advocacy groups have come up with a new tactic to show how climate change—and laws to deal with it—could make investments in fossil fuel companies riskier and … MORE
Get Real about Climate Change, Shareowners Tell Utilities
SOCIAL FUNDS – February 28, 2013 – With trillions of dollars in infrastructure upgrades looming for electric utilities, investors call on five companies to emphasize a transition to renewables, improve energy efficiency, and manage water … MORE
New York State Pension Fund and Other Investors Urge Utilities to Ramp Up Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
3BL MEDIA – February 27, 2013 – Major U.S. investors and pension funds have filed resolutions with five electric power utilities – Ameren, Cleco, DTE Energy, FirstEnergy, SCANA – urging them to increase deployment of … MORE
The Case for Fossil-Fuel Divestment
ROLLING STONE – February 22, 2013 – It’s obvious how this should end. You’ve got the richest industry on earth, fossil fuel, up against some college kids, some professors, a few environmentalists, a few brave … MORE
Getting the Carbon Out
FINANCIAL ADVISOR – January 29, 2013 – Who are the Filthy 15? They are public companies in the coal utility and extraction business that groups criticize for damaging the environment and contributing heavily to climate … MORE
RELEASE: Why Can’t Apple Make Greenhouse Gas Curbing Commitments?
AS YOU SOW RELEASE – February 25, 2010 – Apple is telling shareholders in its proxy that it “provides its customers and shareholders with an unmatched level of detail on environmental performance.” That is not … MORE
