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 U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called for reducing investments in fossil fuels by about a quarter. That is an idea that oil companies have pushed […]
Responsible Investor | by Carlos Tornero
Follow This, the group known for filing climate resolutions at Shell, and the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, have co-filed a shareholder proposal at Equinor, the oil firm formerly known as Statoil that is majority owned by the Norwegian state.
The proposal follows on the heels […]
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 urging BP to set hard targets for reducing overall carbon emissions.
Follow This, a Dutch organisation that spearheaded a number of climate shareholder […]
Bloomberg | 10 december 2018
The activists who rankled Royal Dutch Shell Plc by filing climate-change resolutions for three straight years now are targeting other oil majors.
Follow This, a Dutch group that accumulates shares in oil companies in order to press them over greenhouse gas emissions, has filed another resolution against Shell […]
The Guardian | 10 Dec 2018
BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil face a shareholder challenge to set carbon targets in line with the Paris climate agreement, as a green group seeks to repeat its success in pressuring Shell to set environmental benchmarks.
When Shell’s chief executive, Ben van Beurden, laid out an ambitious […]
Responsible Investor | 10 december 2018
Follow This, the share-owing campaign group, has filed a climate resolution at UK oil and gas major BP, on the same terms as the one it filed at Shell for the fourth time this year, as reported last week by RI.
It’s the first time Netherlands-based […]
Financial Times | 9 december 2018
An activist shareholder group will target BP at the oil major’s annual meeting next year over its response to global warming, escalating a campaign that has forced rival Royal Dutch Shell to commit to reducing its carbon emissions.
A Netherlands-based group called Follow This filed a […]
Reuters | 9 december 2018
Pressure on oil companies to tackle climate change is growing after an activist group for the first time filed a shareholder resolution urging BP to set hard targets for reducing overall carbon emissions.
Follow This, a Dutch organisation that spearheaded a number of climate shareholder resolutions at […]
“There is actually no problem that we cannot solve.”
“It is very important that we keep pace with the energy transition.”
“An organisation that has so many qualities, so much expertise, so much capital, has to be able to reinvent itself.”
Pensioenfondsen hebben de mond vol van duurzaam en voor de lange termijn beleggen. FD Energie Pro vroeg de grote pensioenfondsen wat dat betekent voor hun beleggingen in olie, kolen en gas. Maar over hun beleggingen in fossiele energie zwijgen de pensioenfondsen liever. ‘Als je duurzaamheid belangrijk vindt als pensioenfonds, dan […]
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