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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....
Press release – Equinor cuts dividend and rejects shareholder support on climate targets
PRESS RELEASE Board advises shareholders to vote against Follow This climate resolution Resolution requests targets for the reduction of product emissions (Scope 3)...
New ambition Shell falls short of Paris goal
PRESS RELEASE Board rejects opportunity for shareholder support on climate targets Shell’s directors advise shareholders to vote against the Follow This climate resolution...
Climate targets resolution at Total
PRESS RELEASE Paris-aligned targets for all emissions (Scope 1,2, and 3) become mainstreamA coalition of institutional investors announced today that they have filed a...
Investor briefing on climate targets resolution at Shell’s AGM
Why your votes matter This email briefing is intended to help shareholders make an informed voting decision on the climate targets resolution at Shell’s AGM on 19 May 2020....
BP and Follow This agree to work towards a climate resolution for 2021
PRESS RELEASE Follow This withdraws climate resolution for 2020 AGM BP and Follow This have agreed to collaborate in drafting a climate resolution for 2021, they announced...
Follow This Climate Targets Resolutions filed for 2020 AGMs
In November and December Follow This filed Climate Targets Resolutions for the 2020 AGMs of Shell, BP, Equinor, ExxonMobil, and Chevron. The wording of the resolution is...
A resolution for CA100+: Steer clear of unintended consequences
Not long ago, it was tempting to wait for an epiphany in the mind of an oil company CEO to accelerate the energy transition to renewables. Our work with Follow This, a...
Shell and Follow This debate at London symposium
Watch a clip from the debate between Tjerk Huysinga (Investor relations, Shell) and Mark van Baal (Founder, Follow This) at the Follow This symposium in London, November...
BP and Equinor under pressure to set emission targets
INVESTORS BRIEFING We thank all the investors who supported the Follow This climate resolutions at BP and Equinor, in particular the majority of the biggest Dutch investors...
Scope 3 or Not Scope 3?
Investors Face Crucial Question at Oil Majors’ AGMs: Scope 3 or Not Scope 3? A year ago, sixty of the world’slargest investors urged the oil and gas industryto “take...
Follow This files fifth climate resolution at Equinor
Five oil majors face same climate resolutions at AGMs in 2019 Follow This has filed a climate resolution for Norwegian oil major Equinor (formerly Statoil). The resolution...
Key Note Mark van Baal in Pakhuis de Zwijger
Key Note Mark van Baal in Pakhuis de Zwijger, 2018
None of the nine biggest Dutch investors support Shell’s climate ambition
Advice from Shell’s Board: “Shareholders should show their support for our net carbon footprint ambition by voting against this resolution,” the directors of Shell...
Follow This speech Shell AGM 2018
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Van Beurden, directors, and shareholders, Good to see you again. Today is an important day, not just for Shell, not even for the entire oil industry, but...
Think Different and Just Do It!
Samen met A’DAM&Co. organiseren we voor de tweede keer een symposium met borrel in de A’DAM Toren, het voormalige Shell kantoor: Zondag 11 maart, 16:00 uur:...
How can investors support oil majors to commit to Paris?
Saker Nusseibeh (CEO Hermes Investment Management), Narina Mnatsakanian (Kempen Capital Management), Jeremy Leggett (SolarAid), Catherine Howarth (ShareAction), Ben Pimcombe...
Shareholder Resolution 2018
Resolution at 2018 AGM of Royal Dutch Shell plc (“Shell”) SPECIAL RESOLUTION Coordinated by Follow This Shareholder Resolution Shareholders support Shell to take leadership...
Investors see strong second quarter for Shell, but no future perspective
Shell has made a profit of $ 3.6 billion dollars in the second quarter, the company announced today. “Investors now know what Shell’s second quarter looked like,...
"Biofuels, energy storage, and hydrogen fit with Shell's core competences," Shell managers say in UU-study.
Shell could use its core competences to play a leading role in the energy transition, concludes a study including 11 (former) Shell managers and 11 energy experts, and...