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BP said it would work on the shareholder proposal with Follow This, a group of investors in oil-and-gas companies that push major oil companies to fall in line with the...

BP is teaming up with Dutch activist investor Follow This to draft a climate resolution for its annual general meeting next year, in what will be a test of shareholders’...

“Looney made an outstanding decision,” said Mark van Baal of Follow This, an activist investor that’s been pressing oil companies to set carbon targets. “We, the...

Norwegian energy major Equinor ASA (EQNR.OS) said Thursday that it would reach carbon neutrality from its operations by 2030, boost renewable energy tenfold by 2026 and cut...

The Guardian: Mark van Baal, from the Dutch shareholder activist group Follow This, warns that a career steeped in oil reserves may make it difficult for Looney to “imagine...

“The only reason Shell has made this leap forward is because investors started supporting our resolution,” Follow This founder Mark van Baal told me. Time Magazine | January...

As Mark van Baal, founder of climate pressure group Follow This, put it: “An oil company with targets for its own emissions, and not for its products is like a...

Norway’s Equinor plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its domestic operations by 40% this decade and to near zero by 2050, potentially allowing the country to...

Follow This on Bloomberg: “Repsol is now the first oil major to be part of the solution to the climate crisis, and truly leading in its sector,” Mark van Baal, the founder...

As an activist investor, Mark van Baal is recruiting thousands of shareholders to unite and force companies like Shell to take climate change more seriously. Interview by...

Mark van Baal, founder of activist investor group Follow This, has spent much of the last few years trying to shepherd European oil majors towards greener investments. Key...

As people around the world gathered for the largest climate protest in history last month, the audience at an event in Stavanger was told there can’t be a “rational...

This is Money | 14 August 2019 Why some investors buy shares in companies like Shell – so they can tell them how to behave From flying less, to cutting down on...

Environmental Finance | 19 July 2019 One of the main criticisms is that the commitments to the Paris Agreement are too vague, and fail to set targets, particularly for...

In the last three years, Mark van Baal has managed to get the multinational oil giant Shell to take meaningful steps towards making the company more sustainable. Not by...

If you’ve attended or watched annual general meetings (AGMs) held by oil majors in the last few years, you might recognise Mark van Baal. He’s the guy trying to whip up...

Stockholder activism changes companies from inside In may 2015, the founder of Follow-this, former financial journalist Mark van Baal (see interview), spoke at the annual...

Panel ‘The rise of shareholder activism’ at the Financial Times Energy Summit, with Natasha Landell-Mills, CFA and Adam Matthews, led by Anjli Raval. Hope the fossil fuel...

Bloomberg | 21 May 2019 BP Plc lined the road leading to its annual shareholder gathering in Scotland’s oil capital with hoardings touting investments in renewable energy....

Deutsche Welle | 15 May 2019 Investing in a major oil company might not chime with change-the-world promise, but it’s the approach advocated by a Netherlands-based...

The Guardian | 14 May 2019 A coalition of major City investors have emerged as key players in forcing BP to be more transparent in how it fights climate change. Investors...

Reuters | April 24, 2019 OSLO/LONDON — Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor will revise its climate targets next year and assess its investments against U.N.-backed goals...

Wall Street Journal | April 10, 2019 BP has called on its shareholders to reject a climate resolution filed by activist investor Follow This that requests it to set targets...

Responsible Investor | April 7th, 2019 Dutch campaign group Follow This is to withdraw the climate change proposal it has filed at Shell, after meetings with its most...

Wall Street Journal | April 8, 2019 Follow This, a Netherlands-based group of investors, said it will withdraw its climate resolution from Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s...

Activist group withdraws resolution challenging Shell climate policy Reuters | April 8 2019 An activist group said it has withdrawn a shareholder resolution calling on Royal...

Financial Times | April 8 2019 Activist shareholders will grant Royal Dutch Shell a reprieve over climate targets ahead of the company’s annual general meeting next month,...

Wall Street Journal | March 14 2019 | By Dieter Holger Company aims to cut its net carbon footprint by up to 3% by 2021, compared with 2016. Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA.LN)...

Reuters | March 1 2019 Australia’s top two independent gas producers, Woodside Petroleum and Santos, are being urged by an activist investor to set carbon emissions targets...

The Economist | 9 February 2019 Shell, under pressure of green investors, said it would tie executive pay to a plan to cut carbon emissions from its products. This year...

Financial Times | 1 February 2019 | Anjli Raval and Owen Walker Investor backlash against energy companies grows for their role in global warming BP has agreed to disclose...

Wall Street Journal | 31 January 2019 A group of more than 4,500 shareholders working under the umbrella of the Netherlands-based group Follow This have been urging Shell,...

Power Shift: Green activist investors push Shell and other oil giants to cut emissions Mark van Baal, founder of Follow This, discusses the activist investor campaign that...

Reuters | 19 december 2018 U.S. and Norwegian oil majors Chevron and Equinor (EQNR.OL) have become the latest target of activist investors moving to force five of the...

Financial Times When an activist shareholder group last year launched a campaign to force Royal Dutch Shell to set hard targets for cutting carbon emissions, just 6 per cent...

Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Mark van Baal (@markfjvanbaal), founder of the Dutch activist investor group Follow This. Last week’s report from the...

Responsible Investor | by Carlos Tornero Follow This, the group known for filing climate resolutions at Shell, and the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, have...

New York Times | 10 December 2018 Pressure on oil companies to tackle climate change is growing after an activist group for the first time filed a shareholder resolution...