Trillium Asset Management Presents Anti-Landmine Proposal at GE Stockholder Meeting(Archive)
Trillium is co-sponsor of a proposal at General Electric seeking a pledge against any future manufacturing of landmine components. …
Trillium Asset Management Fights for Sustainability at BP Amoco’s Annual Meeting in London(Archive)
Trillium Asset Management’s Simon Billenness will attend BP Amoco’s annual meeting in London on April 19. Simon will speak in support of a shareholder resolution urging BP Amoco to take further steps toward becoming a sustainable energy company. The resolution urges the company to plan and conduct business in radical new ways. “Protecting the climate will require a radical rethink of energy policy and a move away from fossil fuels, leaving most of the world’s total fossil fuel resource below the ground.” …
Shareholder Action Network Kicks Into Gear(Archive)
Social Investment Forum Launches Web Site for Shareholder Advocacy. …
A Week In the Life of Action (Archive)
Britain lacks two actors key to American shareholder activism: religious shareholder activists and firms such as Trillium Asset Management dedicated to social investment. This is why Greenpeace approached an American investment firm in order to find the one significant investor in BP Amoco needed to file the resolution. …
Social Investing Tops $2 Trillion Mark (Archive)
In a November 4 report prepared by Trillium Asset Management on behalf of the Social Investment Forum, it was announced that $2.16 trillion in assets are involved in socially and environmentally responsible investing in the United States. Approximately one out of every eight dollars, or roughly 13% of the total $16.3 billion in investment assets under professional management, is part of a socially responsible portfolio. That’s up from 9% of the total in 1997. Social assets grew at twice the rate of all assets under professional management over the past two years. Between 1997 and 1999, total assets involved in …
Dealing with China(Archive)
Holding corporations accountable for their conduct in China and Tibet is a tough puzzle. But it is one that can be cracked. …
Slouching To (and From) Kabul (Archive)
Last month, Unocal Corporation, a multinational energy concern loathed in many circles for its business relationship with the Burmese military regime, dropped plans to pursue a natural gas pipeline deal with the Taliban government of Afghanistan, a regime loathed in many circles for its heinous treatment of women. The official story from Unocal is that low oil prices worldwide have forced cost-cutting measures, some of which just happen to include closing three out of four of its offices in the Caspian and Central Asian regions. The real story is that feminists and human rights advocates have made Afghanistan too hot …
Independent Monitoring: A New Approach Gathers Momentum(Archive)
Using the same approach that companies have used to ensure worldwide quality standards, Social Accountability International (formerly Council on Economic Priorities Accreditation Agency) has created a workers' rights standard: Social Accountability 8000, or SA8000. …
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