As You Sow's "Proxy Preview 2020" reports on the 429 environmental, social, and sustainability shareholder proposals filed as of February 21, which include 322 pending proposals, 26 proposals omitted after no-action challenges (with another at least 63 no-action requests pending), and 78 withdrawn.
In terms of filed proposals, corporate political activity proposals account for the largest single category at 18% of all proposals, followed by climate change (15%), board diversity (13%), decent work (12%) and human rights (11%), as depicted here:
The report includes an overview followed by detailed analysis on each proposal category and an index of all companies with proposals this season across each of the major categories of Climate Change/Environmental, Corporate Political Activity, Decent Work/Diversity, Human Rights, Sustainable Governance, and Other.
See As You Sow's release, this Corporate Counsel article, "2020 proxy season includes 400-plus ESG resolutions – report" and "Coronavirus creates a whole host of unknowns" from Pensions & Investments, and numerous additional resources on our Shareholder Proposals and Proxy Season 2020 pages.
This post first appeared in the weekly Society Alert!