ESG Shareholder Activism in Proxy Preview 2025
The annual Proxy Preview report was recently released, detailing a selection of ESG shareholder resolutions filed thus far in 2025. As was evident last year, there continues to be a…
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“Progressive” ESG Shareholder Activism: Understanding ESG Activism
Corporate America’s recent leftward lurch on many divisive sociopolitical issues has not occurred in a vacuum. While it doubtlessly has many causes, chief among these is the pressure that businesses…
“Progressive” ESG Shareholder Activism: Quantitative Trends
The recent numerical increase in ESG shareholder resolutions has been well-documented. A comprehensive review of the 2022 proxy season by Georgeson counted 941 shareholder resolutions submitted to Russell 3000 companies,…
“Progressive” ESG Shareholder Activism: Qualitative Trends
The nature of ESG shareholder resolutions has shifted over the years to rapidly ramp up the pressure on American business. To quote the publisher’s introduction to the 2021 Proxy Preview,…
“Progressive” ESG Shareholder Activism: Pushing and Pushback
The quantitative and qualitative acceleration of ESG shareholder resolutions is easier to understand when one recalls that ESG activism is just ordinary sociopolitical issue activism undertaken within the corporate sector.
The Proxy Preview: ESG in 2023
At least 542 environmental, social, and governance (ESG) shareholder resolutions have been filed thus far in 2023. This already exceeds the total number filed in all of 2021 and appears…
Shareholder Activism: Woke Capitalism from the Inside
Conservatives are rightly vexed by “woke capitalism,” exasperated at the ways in which big American corporations are increasingly weighing in on sociopolitical issues—invariably, it seems, in favor of the progressive…
Divest from the War Machine and Radical ESG Activism
At its most extreme, public divestment campaigns can even seek to alter governmental policy and global geopolitics. Case in point, a campaign called Divest from the War Machine aims to…