In the media

Shareholders are crucial to unlocking energy transition Opinion piece in The Financial Times. Mark van Baal is the founder of Follow This. Every so often, the CEO of a big...

Le Monde — A group of 188 scientists and experts condemn the ‘carbon bomb’ represented by the French multinational’s oil pipeline project in Uganda. ...

Reuters — TotalEnergies’ bet on gas means no big emissions cut by 2030 French oil major TotalEnergies forecasts its overall greenhouse gas emissions will not see a big...

The Financial Times — BP insists it is not slowing green transition to cash in on high oil prices The boss of BP’s US business has insisted that the company is sticking with...

The New York Times — Shell’s Profit Soared to $42 Billion Last Year Shell, Europe’s largest energy company, reported a bumper profit for 2022 on Thursday: $42.3 billion,...

PRESS RELEASE response Follow This to Shell’s 2022 results   Shell’s investments (cash Capex) in the division Renewables and Energy Solutions (RES) were $3.5 billion...

CNBC — “I have called 2022 the year the empire struck back,” Mark van Baal, founder of Dutch shareholder activist Follow This, told CNBC via telephone....

Resolutions focus on Scope 3 emissions reductions in 2030 Leading investors with assets under management of more than € 1.3 trillion* join activist shareholder Follow This...

The Washington Post | The proposal calls on the companies to set medium- and long-term targets for aligning their emissions trajectories with the Paris agreement. While...

Financial Times – Follow This, which submits the same resolution at several oil and gas companies, argues that Shell must commit to an absolute reduction in the scope...

Reuters – Shareholders backed Shell’s climate strategy while a climate activist proposal from the Follow This group received fewer votes than last year....

The Washington Post | Investors in three of the world’s largest oil and gas companies this week rejected proposals for the firms to set stronger climate targets, as...

CNBC – Some of the world’s largest corporate emitters face the prospect of a shareholder rebellion this month, with climate-related votes poised to spike...

Follow This founder Mark van Baal at Bloomberg’s Sustainable Business Summit: “We need big oil with their brains, their billions, their global reach to speed up...

The Guardian – Climate activists have reacted with concern to reports that Shell is reconsidering its decision to abandon development of the Cambo oilfield, warning...

Financial Times | SEC will force oil and gas producer group to hold vote on tighter emissions targets.  “It’s telling that the SEC basically states that even Occidental —...

Reuters – Shareholders at four U.S. oil companies will vote in the coming quarter on proposals for the firms to meet emissions targets set out in Paris in 2015, said...

The Washington Post – A shareholder advocacy group filed papers Tuesday asking investors in the energy giant Chevron to oust the chairman and another board member...

The Guardian | The oil giant revealed its four-fold increase in profits alongside pledges on investment in cleaner energy.  Investors and climate activists have raised...

During the last week of May 2021, significant gains were made in the battle against climate change. In this episode, Becky Annison talks to Mark van Baal, the founder of the...

Forbes | In an age in which stock trading is no longer reserved to Wall-Street and a climate crisis is becoming a reality, sustainability-driven shareholder activism was...

From local activism to shareholder rebellions, here’s what climate advocates accomplished over the last year. The shareholder rebellions Activist investors leveraged their...

Financial Times | For decades campaigners have picketed oil and gas offices, blockaded refineries and disrupted operations. Now the energy sector is facing a new kind of...

Reuters | Climate activist group Follow This targeted Exxon Mobil Corp with a shareholder resolution urging it to deepen its carbon emissions reduction targets, ramping up...

Yahoo Finance | Mark van Baal, Follow This Founder, joins Yahoo Finance’s Zack Guzman and Akiko Fujita to discuss the latest initiative to pressure Big Oil to do more...

Financial Times | Royal Dutch Shell shareholders have overwhelmingly backed sweeping changes to the company’s share structure and tax residence, paving the way for the board...

Associated Press | Royal Dutch Shell on Friday received approval from shareholders to simplify its archaic corporate structure, which grew out of the merger more than a...

Dutch group Follow This brought a motion at Shell’s annual general meeting this year urging it to set targets for Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions — those produced by the...

A lot has happened in recent weeks: The pressure on Shell has grown: new research shows that Shell wants to increase emissions this decade, pension fund ABP has dropped...

Financial Times | Royal Dutch Shell is under pressure to break itself up after the activist hedge fund Third Point built a large stake and accused the oil supermajor of...

The Guardian | One of the world’s largest pension funds, ABP, is selling its €15bn-worth of holdings in fossil fuel companies, including Royal Dutch Shell, claiming it had...

Wall Street Journal | Chevron said it has an “aspiration” to reduce or offset carbon emissions from its operations to zero by 2050. Chevron’s net-zero announcement was...

Reuters – ConocoPhillips Chief Executive Ryan Lance on Monday doubled down on U.S. shale and the world’s continued demand for oil with his second blockbuster...