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 companies to take a leading role in tackling climate change.Prepare for the oil majors’ next AGM...
Breakthrough in USA: SEC forces oil companies to hold investor votes on emission targets
Financial Times - March 20 2021 The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has directed two of America’s biggest oil companies to hold shareholder votes on far-reaching new emissions targets, as the regulator adopts a tougher approach to climate under the Biden...
IN THE MEDIA
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 climate change, shareholders...
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 companies to take a leading role...
Breakthrough in USA: SEC forces oil companies to hold investor votes on emission targets
Financial Times - March 20 2021 The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has directed two of America’s biggest oil companies to hold shareholder votes on far-reaching new emissions targets,...
NEWS
Follow This Climate Targets Resolutions in 2021
Investor and media briefingThis 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 four oil and gas companies in the US. As in previous years, all resolutions support the companies...
Climate Action 100+ alliance is bigger than Big Oil
Oil executives have used CA100+ joint statements as fig leaves. Until now. Go figure. The brainpower, technology and investment to slow global heating are readily available. Time is short, and the energy incumbents have the know-how, financial muscle, and...
RI: Oil majors’ promises need a reality check
“Each of them wants to remain a fossil fuel giant, only not look like one,” said Van Baal. “Apparently far more pressure from society and responsible investors is needed to make oil executives see the writing on the wall.” According to a report from Oil Change...
Shell unveils ‘accelerated’ net zero strategy, confirms oil production peaked in 2019
EnergyVoice | Mark van Baal, head of the Follow This activist investor group, said it was...
From Russia with oil: why Rosneft is BP’s ‘dirty Arctic secret
The Times: Mark van Baal of Follow This, a Dutch shareholder group, has been working with BP on a...
Follow This Climate Targets Resolutions in 2021
Investor and media briefingThis briefing is to bring you up to date on the climate targets...
Climate Action 100+ alliance is bigger than Big Oil
Oil executives have used CA100+ joint statements as fig leaves. Until now. Go figure. The brainpower, technology and investment to slow global heating are readily available. Time is short, and the energy incumbents have the know-how, financial muscle, and...
RI: Oil majors’ promises need a reality check
“Each of them wants to remain a fossil fuel giant, only not look like one,” said Van Baal. “Apparently far more pressure from society and responsible investors is needed to make oil executives see the writing on the wall.” According to a report from Oil Change...
Equinor aims for net zero emissions by 2050
Reuters: Mark van Baal, head of Dutch activist group Follow This, said Equinor’s targets seem the most ambitious in the industry, but its plans to produce more oil and gas this decade contradict the goals of the Paris climate agreement. “It’s like reaching for the...
Interview with Follow This about the oil crisis and the climate crisis
The oil price has collapsed, and Shell is having to take drastic steps: sweeping layoffs and for the first time since World War II a lower dividend payout to the shareholders of the British/Dutch multinational. One of those shareholders is here with me in the studio....
Despite Recent Commitments, Big Oil Still Behind On Climate Change
As most Big Oil majors have recently made commitments to reduce their carbon footprint and help tackle climate change more actively. According to a new report from anti-oil advocacy Oil Change International, however, they are all falling short of Paris Agreement...
Influential investor group demands ‘net-zero’ targets
Climate Action 100+, the influential investor group whose 518 members include BlackRock and Pimco, has written to the world’s largest greenhouse gas-emitting companies to demand they put in place a “net-zero strategy” for 2050 or earlier. The organisation, which...
Some supermajors want to remain oil giants but not ‘look like it’, activist investor says
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 shareholder group Follow This, hit out at supermajors for publicising ambitions, without...
Reuters: Equinor rejects climate resolution proposals
Equinor’s board has rejected all shareholder climate resolutions, including one asking to set more ambitious emission reduction targets, the company said in a notice to the annual shareholders’ meeting published on Thursday. Follow This, a group representing about...
Total Investors Urge Oil Major to Adopt Tougher C02 Goals
Total SA investors called on the oil major to put broader limits on carbon emissions, increasing pressure on the French company to match commitments made by peers ahead of its annual shareholder meeting. Follow This, a separate group of activist shareholders, said...
Santos Climate Vote Is Warning to Oil Majors, Says Follow This
The results of a climate-change shareholder resolution calling for Paris Agreement-aligned targets at Australian oil company Santos is a warning to oil-and-gas majors Royal Dutch Shell and Equinor, says Mark van Baal, founder of Follow This, a group of oil company...
Climate vote at Santos sets new Australian record
“This voting outcome is very promising for the AGM season in Europe, where Shell and Equinor face resolutions with the exact same request for Paris-aligned targets for all emissions (Scope 1, 2, and 3)”, added Mark van Baal, Founder of Follow This, the Dutch...
BP Agrees to Draft Climate Change Shareholder Resolution
BP said it would work on the shareholder proposal with Follow This, a group of investors in oil-and-gas companies that push major oil companies to fall in line with the Paris Agreement. In response, Follow This said it has withdrawn its climate change resolution that...
SHELL
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...
TOTAL
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...
CHEVRON
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...
EQUINOR
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...
EXXONMOBILE
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...
BP
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...
