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  • Third of investor votes back Mizuho Financial climate resolution

    25 June 2020

    More than a third of Mizuho Financial investors backed a ground-breaking shareholder resolution urging the Japanese bank to disclose its climate risks and publish a plan to align investments with the Paris Agreement.

  • Sustainability by proxy - Part three: Hermes EOS

    01 March 2019

    In the third of a four-part series on highly influential proxy voting providers, Michael Hurley asks Hermes EOS what it is doing to develop the guidance it provides investors on environmental issues

  • Sustainability by proxy - Part one: Glass Lewis

    25 February 2019

    Countless investors rely on the advice of proxy voting providers to support their investment decisions. In the first of a four-part series, Michael Hurley asks are these firms doing enough to develop their guidance on environmental issues?

  • Investors are optimistic about Exxon and Chevron climate change resolutions

    20 May 2016

    Investors are optimistic of a "positive" result for two shareholder resolutions on climate change at ExxonMobil and Chevron ahead their annual general meetings next week, despite opposition from the companies' boards.

  • EF BRIEFS: Statoil, Solar21, Carbon trading, Sustainalytics and Glass Lewis

    19 February 2016

    Statoil has launched 'one of the world's largest corporate venture funds dedicated to renewable energy' as it looks adapt in-line with the transition to a low-carbon economy.