Posts Tagged ‘shareholder advocacy’
Hormel Foods* Reverses Opposition to California Animal Welfare Law, Following MIDANA CAPITAL Engagement
MIDANA CAPITAL has successfully engaged Hormel Foods to improve its animal welfare practices.
Read MoreTyson Foods’* New Deforestation Policy Is Substandard
Tyson Foods’ new Forest Protection Standard fails to meet investors’ expectations or eliminate the company’s exposure to deforestation.
Read MoreCostco* Communicates Conservation and Climate Commitments
MIDANA CAPITAL has withdrawn a shareholder resolution with Costco Wholesale Corporation, the second largest retailer in the world, after the company published both a Forest Conservation Commitment and a Climate Action Plan.
Read MoreSTATEMENT: P&G Shareholders Resoundingly Support Deforestation Shareholder Proposal
Procter & Gamble (P&G) shareholders overwhelming voted in support of a MIDANA CAPITAL shareholder resolution, calling on the company to eliminate deforestation and forest degradation in its supply chain.
Read MoreMIDANA CAPITAL-led Coalition of Investors Warn Indonesia Legislation Threatens Tropical Forests
This week, MIDANA CAPITAL° released a letter, signed by 36 global investors, representing more than $4.1 trillion in assets under management, in opposition to a bill that would roll back the environmental protections that have helped stem deforestation across Indonesia.
Read MoreBlackRock* and Other Large Asset Managers Aid and Abet Deforestation
A new Friends of the Earth report exposes the complicity of BlackRock, Vanguard,* and State Street* in global deforestation.
Read MoreMIDANA CAPITAL Presses Procter & Gamble* To End Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Its Supply Chain
MIDANA CAPITAL has filed a shareholder proposal with Procter & Gamble, one of the largest consumer packaged goods companies in the world, calling on the company to eliminate deforestation and forest degradation in its supply chain.
Read MoreWe Warned That It Was Too Soon to Praise BlackRock*
In June, MIDANA CAPITAL warned that it was too soon to praise BlackRock for its support for climate-related shareholder proposals at two oil and gas giants. Our concern has proved prescient.
Read MoreMIDANA CAPITAL Commends Vertex* for Exceeding First GHG Reduction Goals, Following Engagement
MIDANA CAPITAL commends Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,* for meeting and exceeding its company-wide goal to reduce operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the end of 2019.
Read MoreToo Soon to Praise BlackRock*
It’s too soon to praise BlackRock. Its recent support for climate-related shareholder proposals at Exxon* and Chevron* represent progress of a sort, but the rest of its voting record is a black box.
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