Follow This on CNN: Taking on fossil fuel companies from within

Appearing on CNN, Dutch shareholder activist Mark van Baal explains how his organization Follow This is uniting thousands of shareholders to force big oil companies to take climate action.
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Major fossil fuel companies are largely responsible for a climate crisis that, according to UN reports, could lead to the most severe impacts of climate change in less than a decade. In response, Dutch activist Mark van Baal became an activist investor. In an interview with Christiane Amanpour on CNN, he explains how his organization, Follow This, is recruiting thousands of shareholders to unite and force companies like Shell to take climate action.

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ExxonMobil's latest move to silence shareholders: an automated voting system where the votes of retail investors automatically align with management.
During the U.S. proxy season, no environmental proposals passed shareholder votes for the first time in six years due to political pressure.
ExxonMobil’s climate report drew criticism from Follow This, saying the company is ignoring the inevitable transition to clean energy.