Climate Shareholder Activists Rethink Their Fight Amid Setbacks
Climate-focused shareholder activists have scored only a few victories in their efforts to push oil giants to adopt cleaner business strategies.
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Climate-focused shareholder activists have scored only a few victories in their efforts to push oil giants to adopt cleaner business strategies.
Mark van Baal, founder of Follow This, clubs shareholders together to have a voice at the table of big oil firms.
Mark van Baal, founder of Follow This, clubs shareholders together to have a voice at the table of big oil firms.
Major oil and gas firms including BP and Shell could face fresh legal action by activist groups as investors demand stock market-listed firms align with Paris climate goals. The wave of potential lawsuits could also target Chevron and Exxon and other heavy industry majors such as Ineos, the petrochemicals giant controlled by billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, and biomass power firm Drax. Amsterdam-based environmental group Fossielvrij NL has told The Mail on Sunday it is preparing to sue ABP – the Dutch Government's giant pension fund and one of the world's largest pension investors – to forc...
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