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As You Sow has released its second annual Road to Zero Emissions Report today grading the largest 100 U.S. companies on their progress toward net zero. Compared to last year’s report, 66% of the companies improved their overall grade. However, many still lack value-chain emissions disclosure and

An analysis by Just Food of some of the major food companies’ progress on net zero shows the scale of challenge ahead.

A new report analyzes the executive compensation packages of 47 of the US’s most carbon-emitting companies. Where climate-related compensation ties were claimed, most were negligible, non-quantitative and lacked specific, climate-related pay incentives.

Devon Energy and Chevron both announced projects that would see the companies aim to reduce pollution from their mineral extraction operations.

Devon Energy and Chevron both announced projects that would see the companies aim to reduce pollution from their mineral extraction operations.

As You Sow graded companies based on their progress toward achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

As You Sow publishes decarbonisation scorecard of 55 companies across a range of sectors, including technology, retail, transport, chemicals, energy, and chemicals

Report Exposes BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, and T. Rowe Price Proxy Voting Bias Uncovering Conflict of Interests: Proxy Voting Data Reveals Bias for Asset Managers to Favor Clients shows a consistent trend for large asset managers to vote proxies in favor of management more often when receiving compensation for financial services.  The report assessed millions of proxy votes sourced from Insightia from January 2015 to June 2020, alongside Department of Labor 5500 disclosures of compensat...

Sam Carr walked out of the Don Jail on a crisp autumn day in 1942. He had been living underground for two years, and detained for the previous month. While the Canadian government was concerned that Carr and his Communist comrades would hamper the war effort, this kind of disruption had not been their goal ever since Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Carr now wanted to mobilize the Canadian public — advocating for conscription, no-strike pledges from unions, and the immediate invasion...