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People Moves, 6 March: DG FISMA, ResponsAbility, Carbon4 Finance

Rio Tinto shareholders in largest ever vote for climate resolution

Investors with a combined $4 billion of shares in Rio Tinto have recorded the largest vote for a climate change-related resolution, without board support, in Australian corporate history.

Investors round on Rio Tinto's funding of fossil fuel lobby groups

Rio Tinto will face mounting pressure at its annual general meeting (AGM) as investors with a combined £1.8 trillion ($2.5 trillion) take aim at its policy on funding lobby groups that obstruct action to combat climate change.

Asset manager plans shareholder resolutions on methane

An engagement initiative on methane has been launched, targeting the 2018 proxy voting season.

Business coalition calls for zero emissions 'well before end of century'

A coalition of businesses and NGOs has written an open letter calling for world leaders to back an ambitious "zero emissions" policy at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21) in December.

People moves

The latest people moves in the environmental markets, covering companies including the World Bank, Aberdeen Asset Management, Principles for Responsible Investment, Sindicatum, E.On, PwC and more