Posts Tagged ‘Responsible Investing’
STATEMENT: Mondelēz* Shareholders Shy from Strong Support of Green Century Proposal Seeking Interim Targets for Company’s 100% Cage-Free Eggs by 2025 Goal
Media Contacts: Andrea Ranger, Shareholder Advocate, aranger@greencentury.com, 781-349-2813; Pam Podger, Communications Director, ppodger@greencentury.com, 802-299-9495 Boston, May 19, 2023 – – Shareholders of Mondelēz International, Inc., a food company known for its popular snack brands, such as Chips Ahoy!, Cadbury, Ritz, and Oreo, were reluctant to support a Green Century° proposal, as evidenced by the vote tally…
Read MoreShareholders Poised to Vote Green Century Proposal Urging McDonald’s* to Prevent Development of Antibiotic-Resistant “Superbugs” in its Supply Chains
Media Contacts: Andrea Ranger, Shareholder Advocate, aranger@greencentury.com, 781-349-2813; Pam Podger, Communications Director, ppodger@greencentury.com, 802-299-9495 Boston, May 22, 2023 – Green Century° and the Benedictine Sisters of Boerne, Texas, have filed a shareholder proposal with McDonald’s urging it to eliminate routine use of antibiotics that are important to protecting human health on the animals in its…
Read MoreColgate-Palmolive ramps up efforts to address plastic pollution in response to Green Century Funds shareholder proposal
Media Contacts: Annie Sanders, Director of Shareholder Advocacy, asanders@greencentury.com, 773-272-6691; Pam Podger, Director of Communications, ppodger@greencentury.com, 860-822-3887 Boston, April 17, 2023 – Colgate-Palmolive*, a leading global consumer products company, will enhance its efforts to reduce plastic packaging and scale up reuse models that cut down on single-use plastic. In exchange for this heightened focus on…
Read MoreInsightia Monthly interviews Annie Sanders and Andrea Ranger on all things shareholder advocacy | Going Green
Insightia Monthly magazine GOING GREEN December 2022 By Rebecca Sherratt An interview with Annie Sanders, Director of Shareholder Advocacy, and Andrea Ranger, Shareholder Advocate, at Green Century Capital Management. Founded in 1991, Green Century is an investment advisory firm based in Massachusetts that manages environmentally responsible funds. Green Century’s sustainability proposals target a…
Read MorePoultry Progress, But Where’s the Beef?
The rampant misuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture is creating drug-resistant bacteria that are harming public health and threatening modern medicine as we know it. Your favorite hamburger joint is probably serving beef that is contributing to the crisis. A report released this week, “Chain Reaction: How Top Restaurants Rate on Reducing Antibiotic Use in…
Read MoreGreen Century and As You Sow Call on General Mills* to Eliminate Toxic Pesticides from its Supply Chain
Green Century presented its shareholder proposal, asking General Mills to being tracking and reducing the use of toxic pesticides in its supply chain, at its September 25th shareholder meeting.
Read MoreShareholders of Darden Restaurants* Express Increasing Support for Green Century’s Antibiotic Use Shareholder Proposal
At Darden Restaurants’ annual shareholder meeting, Green Century’s shareholder proposal, asking the company to reduce the use of medically-important human antibiotics in its meat supply chain, received 40.2% of shareholder support.
Read MoreWhat does it mean to invest fossil fuel free?
What does it mean to invest fossil fuel free? And how do you begin to divest? This post will attempt to clarify the definition of fossil fuel free investing, and to distinguish between fossil fuel free and low carbon strategies. What does it mean to invest fossil fuel free? For Green Century, and for many…
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