The Washington Post | The proposal calls on the companies to set medium- and long-term targets for...

Financial Times - Follow This, which submits the same resolution at several oil and gas companies,...

Reuters - Shareholders backed Shell's climate strategy while a climate activist proposal from the Follow This group received fewer votes than last year. "Investors have given in to Shell’s narrative that the crisis created by the war in Ukraine overrides the climate...

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 fossil fuel firms reap record profits following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But the fight is far from...

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 throughout the proxy season. Dutch group Follow This, a small activist investor and campaign group with stakes in...

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 energy transition, or else there is no chance we will ever meet it." "The [Climate Action 100+] report...

The Guardian - Climate activists have reacted with concern to reports that Shell is reconsidering its decision to abandon development of the Cambo oilfield, warning that such a reversal would further threaten emissions reductions targets. Mark van Baal, the leader of...

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 — which has some targets — is not Paris consistent. I hope the investors realise that these...

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 climate activist group Follow This. The votes will test shareholder willingness to impose new air...

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 because of the company’s failure to cut carbon emissions, setting off a campaign to alter significantly...

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 concern that the plans risk falling short of expectations from both sets of perspectives. Mark van...

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 international pressure group Follow This, about what happened. Was this the beginning of a...

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 bound to happen. And we see it happening, with increasing impact—especially in Big Oil,...