Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’
Amazon* Shareholders Support Green Century Plastic Packaging Proposal
48.9% of Amazon shareholders voted at the company’s annual meeting last Wednesday to support a Green Century° shareholder proposal urging the company to significantly reduce its use of plastic packaging.
Read More35% of Amazon* Shareholders Support Plastics Reduction Proposal Filed by As You Sow and Green Century
Amazon.com, Inc. shareholders voted Wednesday at the company’s annual meeting on a shareholder proposal put forth by Green Century Capital Management and As You Sow.
Read More20×2020: Green Century Is Pressing 20 Corporations to Fulfill No-Deforestation Commitments By 2020
Green Century recently identified 20 key commodity traders and corporations that have pledged to end deforestation in their supply chains and have provided insufficient disclosure of progress and launched an effort to press them to fulfill their commitments by the 2020 deadline.
Read MoreGreen Century’s Top 10 Highlights from 2019
Green Century had an environmental impact in 2019. Here are the top 10 highlights.
Read MoreAmazon Fires Aftermath: Our Ongoing Effort to End Deforestation
Deforestation briefly caught the world’s attention this summer, as thousands of fires – 84% more than the previous year – blazed in the Amazon. Concern surged as the “lungs of the world” went up in smoke and scientists warned that the Amazon was approaching a point of irreversible ecological collapse. Since tropical forests usually are…
Read MoreTop 11 Impact Stories of the Shareholder Season
With the close of the 2018 – 2019 shareholder season, here are the top 11 impact stories of Green Century’s shareholder advocacy program.
Read MorePressured by Green Century Proposal, Amazon* Commits to Cut Delivery Emissions by 50% by 2030
Green Century withdrew its shareholder proposal with Amazon, after it committed to carbon neutrality for half of its package deliveries by 2030, and indicated it would outline a broader vision for entirely carbon neutral deliveries in the future.
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