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  • Church investors toughen ESG shareholder voting policy

    10 March 2020

    As annual general meeting (AGM) season approaches, the Church Investors Group (CIG) has announced a toughened stance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues when considering shareholder voting decisions.

  • £17bn Church Investors Group to crack down on climate laggards

    07 February 2018

    The UK's Church Investors Group (CIG) will take a harder line on companies failing to take action on climate change by voting against the re-election of directors, as part of its updated proxy voting policy.

  • Link remuneration to climate risk, says TCFD

    29 June 2017

    A key update in the final recommendations of the Financial Stability Board's (FSB) Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is a call to link climate-related risks and disclosure play in remunerations.

  • Shareholders to march on AGM season buoyed by Paris & TCFD

    31 March 2017

    With more than 100 environmental shareholder resolutions already filed, it is financial firms as well as the oil & gas majors that are in the firing line, reports Joe Walsh

  • Investors target climate at AGM season

    08 February 2017

    Investors with assets of approximately £17 billion ($21.1 billion) have called on shareholders to back resolutions requiring climate disclosure and forcing companies to deal with the transition to a low-carbon economy.

  • Shell and Statoil next to face climate votes at AGM

    15 May 2015

    Shell and Statoil will become the latest fossil fuel companies to address mounting shareholder concerns about climate change when they hold their annual general meetings (AGMs) next week.

  • Shell shareholder resolution on carbon gets go-ahead from investors, BP set to follow

    16 December 2014

    A shareholder resolution demanding that Shell report on its climate change strategy has attracted the 100 signatories it needs in order to be filed at the company's AGM, while a similar action against BP is on course to reach the same milestone.