How activist investors plan to take on Big Oil at the 2026 AGM season

Follow This returns to the AGM season with a new strategy. The group now targets financial risks to push Big Oil toward a cleaner future.
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CNBC | Dutch group Follow This on Wednesday launched a newly revised strategy to take on Big Oil at the upcoming proxy season, seeking to increase shareholder pressure on the financial sustainability of fossil fuel business models.

The prominent climate activist group, which paused filing shareholder resolutions last year due to a lack of investor appetite, said it will change tack to focus on the financial risks associated with declining oil and gas demand — rather than requesting emission reduction targets.

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The resolutions request that both London-listed companies disclose strategies for creating shareholder value under scenarios of falling oil and gas demand, including under the International Energy Agency’s Stated Policies Scenario (STEPS) and Announced Pledges Scenario (APS).

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Incoming CEO Meg O'Neill faces immediate pressure as Follow This demands a strategy for the inevitable decline in fossil fuel demand at BP.
Follow This is challenging Shell and BP. We’re asking Big Oil to reveal how they’ll protect shareholder value as global fuel demand begins to fall.
Follow This and 23 institutional investors have filed shareholder resolutions demanding transparency on shareholder value as oil and gas demand falls.