Trillium Asset Management Corporation Files Resolutions on the Sudan Genocide
In December 2007, Trillium Asset Management Corporation (”Trillium”), working in coalition with human rights organizations and other socially responsible investment firms, filed shareholder resolutions with major banks and financial firms with the goal of engaging Wall Street to push Sudan [...]

Late last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) closed an opening that had given investors a little more power to nominate directors at publicly traded companies. At issue is whether investors can nominate directors to appear on the company’s proxy ballots mailed out to all shareholders. Shareholders have the [...]

2007
By Shelley Alpern
The cicada is a locust-like insect that emerges from a long hibernation every umpteen years to create an incessant buzzing on some areas of the East Coast. Equally annoying in death as in life, when spent, cicadas drop from trees en masse, littering once-pleasant lawns and parks with piles of crunchy carcasses.Ten [...]

Shareholder Resolutions Filed by Trillium Asset Management Corporation (”Trillium”)
Each year, socially and environmentally concerned investors file dozens of shareholder proposals on a wide range of topics. To file a proposal (also called a resolution), a shareholder must be a long-term holder (one year or more) of at least $2,000 worth of a company’s stock. Environmental [...]

WHEREAS
ExxonMobil Corp. “is the world’s largest petroleum and petrochemical
enterprise,” and “largest net producer of hydrocarbons in Europe”;
“ExxonMobil recognizes that the impact of greenhouse gas emissions [GHG] on society and ecosystems may prove to be significant”;
ExxonMobil faces potential strategic challenges from “the competitiveness of alternative hydrocarbon or other energy sources” (2006 10K);
Leaders of 25 corporations, including [...]

WHEREAS
Anadarko’s operates in four countries worldwide that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol, which obliges industrialized countries to reduce national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions below 1990 levels by 2012, and provides financial incentives for non-industrialized participants to reduce their GHG emissions.
Since Kyoto was adopted, the urgent need for action to prevent the most damaging effects of [...]

WHEREAS
Due to the international requirements of the Kyoto Protocol, ConocoPhillips is facing unprecedented pressure to reduce emissions and meet clean energy demands, and growing public pressure to make significant emissions reductions.
To avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change, experts believe that we must hold CO2 emissions at or near 2004 levels for the next [...]

Shareholder Resolutions Filed by Trillium Asset Management Corporation
Each year, socially and environmentally concerned investors file dozens of shareholder proposals on a wide range of topics. To file a proposal (also called a resolution), a shareholder must be a long-term holder (one year or more) of at least $2,000 worth of a company’s stock. Environmental [...]

2006-2007
Final Vote: 32%

2006-2007
Final Vote: Withdrawn