Green shareholders response to TotalEnergies’ Investor Day TotalEnergies’ emission reduction targets for 2030* fall short of Paris-alignment. It is not up to TotalEnergies...
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Follow This: “fossil fuel companies advocating a slow transition lose all climate credibility”
Follow This response to the IPCC report “This report strips oil majors that advocate for a slow transition of all climate credibility. Oil major CEOs who claim to be part of...
Total’s CEO: ‘investors voting against our strategy behave more like activists than shareholders’
‘Investors behave more like activists than shareholders when they vote against Total’s strategy to increase fossil fuel production by 2030.’ That was the...
Big headlines following Big Oil’s 2021 AGM season
– INVESTOR BRIEFING – We hope that the events of May have left you feeling as optimistic as we do about our joint fight against climate change. Many thanks to...
92% votes for Total’s inhouse climate resolution proves the necessity of shareholder climate resolutions
– PRESS RELEASE with response Follow This – Today at Total’s AGM, 92% of shareholders voted for Total’s inhouse climate resolution, that supports Total’s current...
61% of Chevron shareholders support Follow This climate resolution
– PRESS RELEASE – Activist group Follow This wins third consecutive Big Oil ballot in US Global investors demand urgent emissions reductions Follow This wins...
Analysis of Chevron’s climate strategy ahead of the 2021 AGM
Global warming must be limited to 1.5°C to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. That means that net global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions should be zero in 2050....
Support for Follow This climate resolution more than doubles, signalling dissent over Shell’s climate plan
PRESS RELEASE Minority shareholder rebellion urges significant reductions in absolute emissions by 2030. Investor support for the Follow This climate resolution (21) rose...
Majority votes for activist climate proposal by Follow This for the second time
PRESS RELEASE Phillips66 shareholders request concrete emission reduction targets. An undisclosed majority of shareholders in Phillips66 approved the climate proposal by...
Support for Follow This climate resolution more than doubles, despite BP’s claims to be Paris-aligned
PRESS RELEASE Investors urge BP to reduce emissions this decade. A significant number of shareholders (20.7%, up from 8.4% in 2019) voted in favour of the Follow This...
58% of ConocoPhillips shareholders vote for Follow This climate proposal
PRESS RELEASE Majority backs emission reduction targets in historic vote for Follow This climate proposal. 58% of ConocoPhillips shareholders vote for activist climate...
Analysis of Equinor’s 2021 climate plan
Net zero is an ambitious target that can only be achieved by ambitious actions. Equinor’s current operations and policies do not reflect a shift from business-as-usual...
Analysis of BP’s 2021 climate plan
BP’s climate plans are not yet compatible with the Paris Agreement. The reason BP and Follow This didn’t agree to a joint resolution, as both parties intended in 2020, was...
Why should investors in Shell vote FOR climate resolution 21?
INVESTOR BRIEFING While “Big Oil Braces for Climate Votes as Investor Pressure Mounts” (Bloomberg), investors in Shell are still debating why they should vote in favour of...
Why should investors vote for the climate resolution at BP (resolution 13)?
INVESTOR BRIEFING Investors are asking us why they should support the Follow This resolution at BP (resolution 13 at the AGM on May 12). The crucial reason to vote in favour...
Watch a Summary of the Follow This Investor Symposium 2021
Should investors vote for climate action at oil majors’ annual meetings in May? Watch the answers of our speakers in this two-minute summary of the Follow This...
Your votes on climate resolutions at Big Oil in May
INVESTOR AND MEDIA BRIEFING This briefing is intended to help shareholders make an informed voting decision on climate resolutions coming to vote at the 2021 AGMs of...
Symposium summary: Urgency & Agency
Oil majors urgently need to change course. Investors have the agency to compel them to do so by voting for climate resolutions. Watch the symposium here or read the key...
Watch the Follow This Online Symposium 2021
The Follow This Online Symposium 2021 brings together investors, the oil and gas industry, academics, and media to discuss how investors can support oil and gas companies to...
Shell’s climate plans remain gravely inadequate to justify a ‘yes’ vote from investors
Dear investor in Shell, Shell is urging you to vote for its own resolution that mandates their own strategy (resolution 20) and against the Follow This climate resolution...
SEC grants shareholders the right to vote on emission reductions at Chevron
PRESS RELEASE Climate proposal requests Chevron “to substantially reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of their energy products” A breakthrough in the fight against...
Follow This Symposium | How investors can support oil majors to curb climate change
Join the online Follow This Symposium that brings together investors, the oil and gas industry, academics, and media to discuss how investors can support oil and gas...
Follow This Climate Targets Resolutions in 2021
Investor and media briefing This briefing is to bring you up to date on the climate targets resolutions that Follow This filed for the 2021 AGMs of BP, Shell, Equinor, and...
Shareholders’ rebellion over non-committal “climate ambitions”
In 2020, the AGM season for Big Oil was characterized by a shareholders’ rebellion over non-committal “climate ambitions” This year’s AGMs of Equinor, Shell, and Total...
Briefing for climate lawsuit Friends of the Earth Netherlands vs Shell
Tuesday 15 December and Thursday 17 December are the third and fourth days of hearings in the lawsuit of Friends of the Earth NL vs. Shell. Shell can easily avoid a lengthy...
Keynote at Building Holland
We can only stop climate change, when we make sure the oil industry changes course. That’s why we started Follow This, a movement of green shareholders in oil and gas...
Shell and ExxonMobil looking for billions in subsidies for carbon capture and storage (CCS)
MEDIA UPDATE “As long as these fossil companies are not making large-scale investments in renewable energy, CCS is no more than an excuse for business as usual.” Today the...
Big Oil Reality Check
Despite green promises, not a single oil major has targets that are aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement. This is the conclusion of a report from Oil Change...
Global investors’ alliance adopts Follow This climate targets
PRESS RELEASE ClimateAction100+, a global investors’ alliance whose members include BlackRock, has embraced the principles set by green shareholders’ group Follow This in...
BP to cut production by 40% by 2030
PRESS RELEASE BP is first oil major to truly change course BP’s oil and gas production will decline by 40% by 2030 [compared to 2019], the company announced today. Follow...
Investors urge Total to set Paris-aligned targets
PRESS RELEASE AGM season closes with a third shareholders’ rebellion over non-committal “climate ambitions”, following Shell and Equinor Total has failed to deter...
BP also can’t confirm its emissions will be down by 2030
PRESS RELEASE This AGM season Follow This is asking every oil major whether its climate ambition for 2050 will lead to a (net) absolute emissions reduction by 2030 and a...
Total’s AGM will reveal a schism in French investor community between “act on climate” and “a good relationship”
Media briefing about climate resolution at Total (for French journalists) In France, like in every country where an oil major faces a climate resolution, a schism will be...
Support for Follow This climate resolution Shell more than doubles to 14.4%
Shell retreats with non-committal “new ambition” for 2050 A substantial body of investors has urged Shell to take concrete action by setting concrete targets to reduce...
27% for Follow This climate resolution at Equinor
PRESS RELEASE Votes for Follow This climate resolution at Equinor double to 27%, despite company’s new climate ambitions Follow This climate targets resolution received 27%...
For the first time, ISS advises shareholder to vote FOR Follow This climate targets resolutions (at Equinor and Shell)
MEDIA BRIEFING At Shell, ISS’s sustainable advice if FOR, ISS’s standard advice is AGAINST At Equinor, both ISS’s sustainable and standard advices are FOR Shell will answer...
Shell won’t guarantee shareholders that new climate ambition leads to emissions reductions by 2030
Press release Despite its new ambition, Shell couldn’t guarantee that its new climate ambition will lead to the necessary actions to achieve the Paris Climate Agreement, in...
Total and CA100+ respond to climate targets resolution
PRESS RELEASE Total and CA100+ announced a new climate ambition today. No Paris-aligned targets, no shift in investments to renewables “At first sight, Total’s new ambition...
Investor briefing on five climate targets resolutions
Your votes for climate targets resolutions will never be ‘unnecessary’ 5 May 2020 (updated on 6 May 2020 to reflect Total’s new ambition) This briefing is to bring you up to...
Shell raises their climate ambition / four other climate resolutions
UPDATE for green shareholders Last week we saw instances of the effect that our climate resolutions are having. On Thursday last week, Shell raised their climate ambition....
