Media Mentions
Green Century in the Media
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‘Uncharted territory’: How are investors preparing for the 2026 AGM season?
Responsible Investor – Dec. 18, 2025
Director of Shareholder Advocacy Annie Sanders is quoted in this piece, which gives an outlook for the 2025/26 proxy vote season amidst new SEC policy.
Companies Have a Key Role to Play in the Future of Biodiversity
GreenMoney – Oct. 5, 2025
In this featured piece, Leslie Samuelrich outlines how biodiversity loss poses business risks and how Green Century uses shareholder advocacy and environmental partnerships to push companies to assess and reduce their impact on nature and protect vital ecosystems.
Lloyds Fossil Fuel Reversal Strikes Experts As Political
Law360 – Sept. 11, 2025
Green Century is mentioned in this piece about insurance and sustainability.
Is Your Green Mutual Fund Green? Auditing Portfolios For Greenwashing
Forbes – Aug. 26, 2025
This article explains how Green Century handles proxy voting and shareholder advocacy, as
well as how to remain alert to greenwashing by companies.
US insurer Chubb breaks climate promise to back coal plant
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism – July 23, 2025
This article features Green Century° shareholder advocate Giovanna Eichner, and highlights Chubb’s surprising shift from being the first insurer with significant US operations to stop providing cover for coal companies, to now emerging as the lead reinsurer for a coal-fired power plant in Vietnam.
US Investors Back Away From Climate and Social Reforms
US News and World Report – July 11, 2025
Leslie Samuelrich, president of Green Century°, is quoted in this article about the decline in support for 2025 shareholder resolutions pushing companies to implement environmental and social reforms. As the shareholder season wrapped up on June 30, Samuelrich attributed the drop in support to growing caution among large investors.
Shareholder Activists Make Ripples at Insurer AGMs
Insurance Day – May 29, 2025
Giovanna Eichner, a shareholder advocate at Green Century°, is quoted in this article that urges insurance companies , Chubb and Markel, to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions. These resolutions can help investors understand the scope of the companies’ underwriting, investing and insuring of fossil fuels, a first step in responding to the risks these emissions pose to the environment and insurers’ bottom lines.
How to Match Your Dollars with Your Values: Invest in Less Plastic, Not Fossil Fuels
Green Philly – May 28, 2025
Annie Sanders is quoted in this article on how Green Century° investors can make their money have an impact, while helping drive change at corporations through shareholder advocacy.
What to Expect at Exxon’s Annual Meeting
Morningstar – May 23,2025
Leslie Samuelrich is quoted in this article that examines how Exxon’s lawsuit against a shareholder resolution, along with new SEC rules, contributed to today’s landscape on climate and environmental resolutions. For the first time in 31 years, Exxon had no shareholder resolutions aiming to influence company behavior advance to the May 28 AGM.
Shareholders want Chemours to stay out of Okefenokee
Capitol Beat – April 25, 2025
A Green Century° resolution, co-filed with the Felician Sisters of North America, received a 6.4% vote at Chemours Company annual meeting. The resolution called on the chemical producer to determine the environmental impacts of the Okefenokee Swamp, an ecologically sensitive area, before any possible titanium mining.
Mission-driven investing: How Green Century helps you align your portfolio with the planet
Equities.com – April 22, 2025
This Earth Day article features Leslie Samuelrich, president of Green Century, and explains the impact people can make by using their money to invest in companies that work for the benefit of the planet.
“We want investors to see their investments not as separate from their values, but as an extension of them,” Samuelrich said. “Every investment has an impact. Why not make it a positive one?”
Coca-Cola caves to pressure with major move toward transparency: ‘Investors need these disclosures’
MSN.com – April 21, 2025
After backsliding on prior commitments, Coca-Cola recently agreed to disclose its reusable packaging investments in an effort to cut plastic waste. The push for transparency in Coca-Cola’s bottle manufacturing is aimed at providing investors with a better picture of the extent of the company’s efforts to reduce pollution.
How Trump’s war on climate and equity is impacting ‘woke investing’
Grist – April 9, 2025
Frances Fairhead-Stanova, a shareholder advocate at Green Century°, is quoted in this Grist article, which offers a comprehensive look at the current climate for climate and other environmentally responsible resolutions at companies.
ESG Investor – April 8, 2025
Green Century President Leslie Samuelrich is quoted in this ESG Investor article covering the current landscape of nuclear energy. She warns that nuclear energy can cause myriad problems and states it does not belong in sustainable investment portfolios.
Shareholder advocacy targets flexible packaging, reusables and recycling labels
Packaging Dive – April 7, 2025
This Packaging Dive article highlights packaging-related shareholder resolutions, including Green Century’s recent shareholder advocacy wins in reuse and truth in recyclability labeling with companies like Coca-Cola and Starbucks.
Ford ask investors to vote down supply chain emissions proposal
Supply Chain Dive – April 1, 2025
A Green Century° proposal asking for reporting on efforts to curb carbon emissions, particularly by securing low-carbon steel, has resulted in Ford Motor Co. asking investors to reject the action as unnecessary, according to this article.
Nature is Critical to Business: Urgent Need to Address Biodiversity Risk
Proxy Preview – April 1, 2025
Andrew Shalit, a shareholder advocate at Green Century°, wrote in a guest commentary how human activity is impacting nature, posing economic and financial risk for biodiversity globally.
SEC refuses to block Chubb shareholder vote on GHG emissions reporting
Insurance Insider – March 28, 2025
This Insurance Insider article covers the Securities and Exchange Commission’s decision to reject Chubb’s bid to exclude a Green Century shareholder proposal that would require the company to disclose climate emissions associated with its underwriting, insuring, and investment activities.
Coca-Cola agrees to report on reusable-bottle investment in response to Green Century request
Equities.com – March 24, 2025
Coca-Cola Co., the largest soft drink maker in the world, agreed to disclose its investments in reusable bottles and report the results of those efforts after a Green Century Capital Management resolution as highlighted in this article.
A modest win for sustainable investors at Coca-Cola
Financial Times – Mar. 24, 2025
Green Century’s recent agreement with Coca-Cola, which requires the company to disclose its investments in reusable containers and track the outcomes of these initiatives, is highlighted in this Financial Times article. The piece features insights from Green Century’s President, Leslie Samuelrich, and Shareholder Advocate, Frances Fairhead-Stanova.
The Aha Moment: 4 strategies for investors focused on ‘going green’
Equities.com – Mar. 11, 2025
This Equities.com article explores the challenges arising from the lack of a clear, universally accepted definition of what qualifies as a ‘green’ investment. Instead, Equities.com outlines four ideas of how to align one’s investments with environmental considerations, including using diversified portfolios like Green Century’s Equity Fund.
Investors slam ‘disruptive’ SEC shareholder proposal rule change
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Responsible Investor – Feb. 13, 2025
Director of Shareholder Advocacy Annie Sanders is quoted in this article discussing the recent SEC guidance for the “no action” process regarding shareholder proposals. The change ‘moves the goalpost’ for filers in the middle of the proxy voting season.
McDonald’s seeks to exclude proposal on reaching its climate goals
Governance Intelligence – Feb. 5, 2025
This article mentions Green Century Capital Management’s efforts to have McDonald’s Corp. abide by a pledge to reach its climate goals. The company is asking the SEC to exclude the resolution from its 2025 proxy statement.
Big read: Investors turn attention to corporate use of carbon offsets
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Responsible Investor – Jan. 29, 2025
This article quotes Giovanna Eichner, a shareholder advocate at Green Century, ° and explores the topic of carbon offsets and the need for greater transparency as companies create offset strategies.
In-Depth: Q&A with Green Century
Diligent Market Intelligence – Jan. 22, 2025
Annie Sanders, director of shareholder advocacy at Green Century°, was interviewed by Diligent Market Intelligence on advocacy ranging from plastics reduction, to forest protections, climate change, animal welfare and biodiversity.
Yahoo News – Jan. 18, 2025
This article describes the public outcry against Coco-Cola for reneging on earlier pledge to make 25 percent of its packaging reusable by 2030 and cut its use of new plastic. The piece quotes Frances Fairhead-Stanova, a shareholder advocate at Green Century.
BlackRock Quits Climate Group as Wall Street Lowers Environmental Profile
Reuters – Jan. 9, 2025
Leslie Samuelrich, President of Green Century, is quoted in this article on recent departures in net-zero coalitions amid the changing political sentiment and the importance of staying the course in urging companies to act in environmentally responsible ways.
Nature resolutions: BNP Paribas AM files on biodiversity at McDonald’s
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Responsible Investor – Jan. 8, 2025
Resolutions on biodiversity and nature-related shareholder proposals emerged as a theme for the 2024 season, including a filing by Green Century at PepsiCo, which received 18.4 percent support.