The Rio Tinto AGM: a microcosm of our complex, globalised world
By Keelia Fitzpatrick, Intern, ShareAction 22 April 2015 Last week the mining giant Rio Tinto held its AGM at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre Westminster, falling on the same day as oil...
View ArticleCruising with Renewable Energy at Carnival PLC
By Anne-Marie Williams, member of the AGM Army 20 April 2015 On a lovely sunny afternoon in mid-April I attended my first AGM, a new recruit to the AGM Army. The AGM was for Carnival PLC, who own many...
View ArticleUnilever: the pack leaders, and don’t they know it
By Juliet Phillips, Campaigns Officer, ShareAction 6 May 2015 We stepped out of Leatherhead station and were soon herded onto a shuttle bus to the Unilever AGM, located in the heart of a quiet and...
View ArticleTaking the clean energy revolution to the boardroom
By Sophia McNab, Education Officer, ShareAction 12 May 2015 BT has done it. IKEA has done it. H&M and Philips have done it. Around the world, giant corporations are joining the clean energy...
View ArticleFive things I learned from meeting my pension provider
By Ruth Chiat, a ShareAction supporter who recently met her pension provider, Scottish Widows 1. My pension gives me a say I came along to a ShareAction workshop about the power of my pension fund...
View ArticleCompanies should walk the talk: questioning Johnson Matthey on corporate...
By Tom Levitt, member of the AGM Army 30 July 2015 Crisp. Efficient. Over in an hour. The Johnson Matthey company AGM was everything it was supposed to be. My first experience as a ShareAction...
View ArticleAn update from the quest to divest Avon Pension Fund
Members of the Avon Pension Fund spoke at the fund’s latest committee meeting in June to continue their dialogue with the committee about the risks of their investments in fossil fuels. Here’s an...
View ArticleTotal is ready to talk lobbying: how we’re keeping up the pressure
By Grace Hetherington, Digital Campaigns Officer, ShareAction 20 July 2015 “It is sort of a revolution.” Those are the bold words used by Patrick Pouyanné, CEO of French oil company Total. He was...
View ArticleHow can energy companies show leadership on corporate lobbying and climate...
By Grace Hetherington, Digital Campaigns Officer, ShareAction 5 August 2015 Corporate lobbying by multinational oil companies isn’t the first thing that springs to mind when you think of progressive...
View ArticleShell quits ALEC: what took you so long?
By Grace Hetherington, Digital Campaigns Officer, ShareAction 10 August 2015 Shell announced on Friday that it intends to cut ties with US based lobbying group the American Legislative Exchange...
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