For our 2008 advocacy efforts, we’re pleased to report a fair amount of progress — never as much as we’d like (we’d like superhero powers), but enough to confirm that shareholder activism remains a potent tool for change.
Climate change. Our shareholder resolution at ConocoPhillips requesting a report on the environmental and social impacts of tar […]
Poor coal. For so long, it has gotten away with being the largest contributor (41 percent) to global CO2 emissions from energy use, a widespread public health hazard by virtue of lead, mercury and other pollutants, the source of black lung disease, and now we can add deforestation to its achievements. “Coal will be coal,” […]
With all the talk out there about energy efficiency and reduced use, I can’t help but think of my mom, telling us kids to put on a sweater, the heat would not go up. I laugh at the person I’ve become, as I tell my own kids the same thing, adding the environmental commentary that […]
WHEREAS: In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal” and that man-made greenhouse gas emissions are now believed, with greater than 90 percent certainty, to be the cause.
In October 2007, a group representing the world’s 150 scientific and engineering academies including the U.S. National Academy […]
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