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Statement16 April 2025
Beyond Fossil Fuels Letter to BNP Paribas on financing of sustainable power solutions
ShareAction is a part of the Beyond Fossil Fuels campaign. The campaign unites 70+ organisations from across European civil society in the mission to speed up the transition to a fossil-free, renewables-based European power system by 2035. In this letter to Jean-Laurent Bonnafé, CEO of BNP Paribas, we call on the bank to set a robust financing target for sustainable storage and grid upgrades, aligned with the IEA NZE scenario, to support the effective rollout of renewable power.
Briefing31 March 2025
Living Wage Resolutions 2025 - Investor Briefings for M&S, Next, and JD Sports
Next, M&S and JD Sports are failing to provide their workforce with a real Living Wage, leaving millions of workers living in poverty and struggling to afford basics like heating and food. ShareAction is ramping up its campaign by co-filing shareholder resolutions at these three companies. Read our investor briefings for more.
Briefing11 March 2025
Putting Health Back on the Menu - Investor asks of the out of home sector
The ‘out of home sector’ is increasingly shaping diets across the world. Many companies in the sector notoriously rely on sales of less healthy products, leaving them most exposed to fast-evolving changes in consumer demand and regulatory shifts that aim to improve diets and reduce public health spending. Assessing these risks is essential yet difficult for investors because the sector’s health-related disclosures are poor and inconsistent. Against a backdrop of increasing consensus on health and nutrition reporting, this briefing provides investors with clear engagement asks of out of home companies. Companies must seize this opportunity to protect their long-term value by disclosing the healthiness of their sales, and proactively transitioning to healthier portfolios.
Rankings / Surveys18 February 2025
Voting Matters 2024: Are asset managers using their proxy votes for action on environmental and social issues?
We analysed how 70 of the world’s largest asset managers voted on 279 shareholder resolutions aimed at improving companies’ impacts on pressing environmental and social issues during the 2024 proxy voting season. For the first time, we also analysed how asset managers voted on 2,227 management items at 126 companies, such as votes on director re-election. A subset of 148 of items is presented in the ranking table, comprised of votes on management items where a recommendation had been made ahead of the voting season by selected organisations.
Statement21 November 2024
Investor letter challenging food and drink sector to act on public health
Major investors, coordinated by ShareAction, have written to six CEOs of food and beverage manufacturers – including PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Mondelez – calling on the sector to be more transparent about the healthiness of its sales as a first step towards taking accountability for its significant impact on public health. Most of the investor signatories are part of ShareAction’s Long-Term Investors in People’s Health initiative, which encourages the integration of health as a responsible investment theme to help build healthier, fairer societies.
Report13 November 2024
The costs of low pay - a responsible investment guide on tackling low pay in the UK retail sector
The UK’s biggest retailers have an important role to play in boosting the quality of life of hundreds of thousands of workers to help shape fairer, healthier societies. However, the business model for the UK retail sector is built on poverty pay and insecure contracts. Household names such as Next and JD Sports are failing to provide their workforce with a real Living Wage, leaving millions of workers living in poverty and struggling to afford basics like heating and food. This doesn’t just harm low-paid workers’ quality of life, it harms the economy too by driving inequality, hindering productivity and adding pressure on state resources through increased health and welfare cost, posing a threat to the long-term interests of shareholders. In our briefing, we have published new guidance for investors in the UK retail sector warning them of the long-term financial risks of failing to pay the real Living Wage, and setting out a responsible investment approach to raise standards. We believe in the fair treatment of workers, and this briefing is part of our work with investors to demand that companies change their employment practices to ensure everyone has access to decent work.
Report06 December 2023
RISE Paper 2 - Introducing a standardised framework for escalating engagement with companies
ShareAction is introducing the concept of a standard escalation framework to facilitate the application of escalation tools with companies through corporate debt and listed equity.
Report22 November 2023
Green Ambitions, Grey Realities: European Banks’ journey from pledges to practice
Europe’s largest 20 banks' are leaving themselves open to allegations of greenwashing, due to a widespread lack of transparency on green finance policies.
Report06 October 2023
Assessment of the six largest pesticide companies’ approaches to addressing biodiversity loss
The world’s largest pesticide companies must address their role in biodiversity loss and start to transition their business models away from hazardous pesticides.
Briefing21 July 2023
EMS-Chemie Holding AG - why investors should vote against re-electing the chair of the board of directors
ShareAction is calling for investors to vote against the reelection of Mr Bernhard Merki, chair of the board of EMS-Chemie Holding AG (EMSN, SWX), at the company’s AGM on 12 August 2023. This briefing sets out why Mr Merki is failing to perform his duties, and why it is in investors’ interests to vote to remove him.
