Shareholder Resources
How can you use your investments to create a greener world? If you own individual stocks in a company, you’re a shareholder, and can use that power to push for greater corporate responsibility.
How can you use your investments to create a greener world? If you own individual stocks in a company, you’re a shareholder, and can use that power to push for greater corporate responsibility.
If you want to learn more about socially and environmentally responsible shareholder resolutions filed each year, Green America's allied organizations have several resources that can help.
Proxy Preview
One of the important shareholder resources is Proxy Preview, published each spring by As You Sow, Sustainable Investments Institute, and Proxy Impact. Proxy Preview tracks and analyzes hundreds of shareholder resolutions on environmental, political spending, human rights, diversity, governance issues, and more.
It includes dozens of contributor articles by authorities and practitioners, weekly proxy voting alerts, and a review of proxy voting results. Green America endorses Proxy Preview each year and pulls from the resolutions it tracks to provide Key Shareholder Resolutions to Vote each year.
Resolution Process
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), a coalition of over 300 faith- and values-based institutional investors, explains shareholder engagement as a host of strategies investors use to influence companies on environmental and social risk. These strategies include dialogues with corporate management, filing shareholder proposals, and more.
ICCR also has a guide on How to File a Shareholder Resolution.
US Sustainable Investment Forum explains the nuts and bolts of shareholder resolutions such as who may file, rules on subject matter and format, and impact in several issue areas.
Of increasing importance in the face of mounting attacks on responsible investment is understanding and defending shareholder rights. The Shareholder Rights Group publishes blog posts that explore the legal and administrative underpinnings for shareholder engagement.
Resolution Trackers
Each year ICCR issues a Proxy Resolutions and Voting Guide. The guide presents ICCR member-sponsored resolutions in human rights, climate change, political lobbying, diversity and racial justice, corporate governance, environmental health, health equity, and more.
As You Sow, which harnesses shareholder power to create lasting change, leads dozens of shareholder resolutions each year across a broad range of ESG issues. You can see these resolutions – and the outcomes – on their Resolutions Tracker.
Ceres, a nonprofit advocacy organization that works to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and sustainable economy, has an Engagement Tracker that follows hundreds of climate-related shareholder resolutions and director votes each year. You can reach each resolution, see who filed it, and learn its status. You can also search the tracker for specific resolutions or topics.
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