Mark van Baal, founder of Follow This, explains in an interview with American magazine Mother Jones why oil companies have to change – and how shareholders can play a...
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Climate activist shareholders to target US oil giant Chevron
May 20 2021
The Guardian – Follow This leads investor rebellions demanding reduced carbon emissions to tackle global heating The climate activist shareholder group that has led...
Follow This on Yahoo: ‘We need the oil industry to rapidly change’
May 18 2021
Follow This Founder Mark van Baal joins Yahoo Finance’s Aikiko Fujita to discuss ways shareholders can implement environmental change by putting pressure on oil...
Some supermajors want to remain oil giants but not ‘look like it’, activist investor says
May 8 2020
A Dutch shareholder activist has accused some oil and gas majors of talking the talk but not walking the walk on shifting to cleaner investments. Mark van Baal, leader of...
Want to save the planet? Buy shares in Shell and tell them what to do
August 23 2019
This is Money | 14 August 2019 Why some investors buy shares in companies like Shell – so they can tell them how to behave From flying less, to cutting down on...
‘Imagine Shell really used their brains and billions for the energy transition’
July 19 2019
In the last three years, Mark van Baal has managed to get the multinational oil giant Shell to take meaningful steps towards making the company more sustainable. Not by...
Change the world: buy dirty stocks!
July 11 2019
Stockholder activism changes companies from inside In may 2015, the founder of Follow This, former financial journalist Mark van Baal (see interview), spoke at the annual...
NEWS
- Investors miss opportunity to urge ExxonMobil and Chevron to drive down emissions by 2030 as votes for Follow This climate resolution fallÂ
- Time is up for Big Oil’s business model
- Record support for Follow This climate resolution at TotalEnergies thanks to coalition of 17 investors
- One-fifth of Shell shareholders maintain demand for emissions reductions to meet Paris by voting for Follow This climate resolution
- Your votes for climate resolutions will show your commitment to Paris and safeguard your portfolio