Socially Responsible Investing Information Update
Updated by Erin Ripperger on March 18, 2026
2025 Shareholder Resolutions
Climate Change & Lobbying
Corporate lobbying activities that are misaligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement present regulatory, reputational, legal, and financial risks; therefore, requested a report around decarbonization goals while maintaining affordable and reliable energy.
Company: Duke Energy Corporation
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution after several productive dialogues with the company where they agreed to provide additional disclosure and to continue dialogue.
Company: Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution after the company agreed to disclose the accounting methods used for their direct air capture business.
Water Quality Impact
Requested a report assessing the Company’s options for establishing targets and implementing actions to reduce water quality-related risks.
Company: YUM! Brands, Inc.
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution after a productive dialogue where the company discussed their policies on water.
Methane Emissions
Requested a public report analyzing a critical climate change concern: the reliability of methane emission disclosures.
Company: Antero Resources Corporation
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution after a dialogue with the company and learning more about their processes and statistics related to methane flaring and emissions.
Use of Hazardous Chemicals
In order to mitigate legal, financial, reputational, and human capital management risks, requested a report on the processes to assess and manage risks and/or hazards associated with chemicals in products.
Company: Dollar General Corporation
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution after in their 2024 Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Report, the company said, “We will add the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s per and poly-fluorinated chemicals (PFAS) for formulated products to our Restricted Substance List (RSL) with a goal to eliminate these chemicals from applicable products by fiscal year-end 2026.”
Human Rights
In order to mitigate human rights risks, asked for a report to determine:
- The impact of the Company’s operations, activities, and business relationships on access to medicines
- The effectiveness of the Company’s implementation of its Human Rights Statement for operations in conflict-afflicted and high-risk areas (CAHRA)
- If customers’ use of their products contribute to violations of international humanitarian law
Company: Johnson & Johnson
Status: The company failed to respond, and the resolution received a 11.2% “for” vote at the April 24, 2025 meeting.
Company: Expedia Group, Inc.
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution after a productive dialogue and agreement to improve disclosures and continue conversations.
Company: Texas Instruments
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution for significant commitments from the company.
Diversity
In order to mitigate legal, financial, reputational, and human capital management risks, requested a report on:
- The effectiveness of the Company’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts
- Adverse impacts on Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities
- Recommendations for improving the Company’s racial equity impact
Company: W.R. Berkley Corporation
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution as the company challenged the resolution at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the basis of ordinary business.
Company: Walmart
Status: The company failed to respond, and the resolution received a 6.9% “for” vote at the June 5, 2025 meeting.
Child Safety
Requested a report assessing whether and how the Company has improved its performance globally regarding child safety impacts and actual harm reduction to children on its platforms.
Company: Meta Platforms
Status: The company failed to respond, and the resolution received a 13.4% “for” vote at the May 28, 2025 meeting.
Reproductive & Maternal Health Care
Asking the Company to issue a public report, detailing any known and potential risks to the Company caused by enacted or proposed state policies severely restricting reproductive rights, and detailing any strategies that the Company may deploy to minimize or mitigate these risks.
Company: Delta Air Lines
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution after learning more from the company in a dialogue.
Company: Albertsons Companies, Inc.
Status: The company failed to respond, and the resolution received a 4.6% “for” vote at the Aug. 7, 2025 meeting.
2024 Shareholder Resolutions
Water Scarcity
In order to mitigate water risks related to global water scarcity in high-risk areas, requesting adoption of new policies to help reduce operational and supply chain water usage.
Company: McDonald’s Corp
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution once McDonald’s Corp agreed to perform a water risk assessment of its value change in 2024 and increase water-use disclosures.
Company: Monster Beverage Corp
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution once Monster Beverage Corp committed to setting targets and disclosed they are in the process of assessing water efficiency projects.
Climate Lobbying
Corporate lobbying activities that are misaligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement present regulatory, reputational, legal, and financial risks; therefore, requesting a report around lobbying activities alignment with the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Company: Meta Platforms
Status: The company failed to respond, and the resolution received an 8.2% “for” vote at the May 29, 2024 meeting.
Human Rights
In order to mitigate human rights risks, asking for an independent third-party report, assessing the effectiveness of its implementation of its Global Human Rights Policy (GHRP) concerning operations in conflict-affected and high-risk areas (CAHRA).
Company: Tripadvisor, Inc.
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution once the company agreed to explore conducting a human rights impact assessment and review and update their Global Human Rights Policy with stakeholder input.
In order to mitigate human rights risks, asking for a report evaluating how effectively the company implements its Human Rights Policy and other company efforts to prevent, mitigate, and remedy actual and potential human rights impacts of its operations.
Company: Chevron
Status: The company failed to respond, and the resolution received a 22.2% “for” vote at the May 29, 2024 meeting.
In order to mitigate human rights risks, asking for a report to determine whether customers’ use of its products or services with surveillance technology and artificial intelligence (AI) capability or of its components that support autonomous military and police vehicles, contributes to human rights harms.
Company: Texas Instruments
Status: The company failed to respond, and the resolution received a 22.8% “for” vote at the April 24, 2024 meeting.
Company: Microchip Technology
Status: The company failed to respond, and the resolution received a 16.7% “for” vote at the August 22, 2024 meeting.
Full Value Chain Emissions
In order to mitigate reputational risks and license to operate risks, requesting a climate transition plan, above and beyond existing disclosures, on aligning operational and full value chain emissions with the ambition of limiting global temperature increase to 1.5°C.
Company: AIG
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution once AIG committed to developing and publishing a climate transition plan in 2025.
Racial Equity Audit
In order to mitigate legal, financial, reputational, and human capital management risks, requesting disclosure of the findings of an independent racial equity audit.
Company: Becton, Dickinson and Company
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution once the company committed to disclose its efforts to identify and reduce any heightened health and environmental impacts from its U.S. operations on adjacent communities of color and low-income communities.
Child Labor
In order to mitigate child labor risks, asking for an independent third-party audit assessing the effectiveness of the Company’s policies and practices in preventing illegal child labor throughout its value chain.
Company: Tyson Foods, Inc.
Status: The company failed to respond, and the resolution received a 13.6% “for” vote at the Feb. 8, 2024 meeting.
Sexual Exploitation of Minors
In order to mitigate risks of its products and services being used to facilitate online sexual exploitation of children, asking for the publication of a report including metrics on the effectiveness of the Company’s efforts such as the amount of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) transmission prevented annually.
Company: Apple, Inc.
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution once Apple Inc. agreed to provide additional disclosures on child safety risk and continue engaging investors on the issue.
Proxy Voting
Requesting Board of Directors initiate a review of the Management’s 2023 proxy voting record and proxy voting policies related to diversity and climate change.
Company: State Street Corporation
Status: Co-filers withdrew their resolution as the company is already substantially implementing the ask of the resolution.
Company: The Goldman Sachs Group
Status: The company failed to respond, and the resolution received an 8.2% “for” vote at the April 24, 2024 meeting.