March 2024 – Climate Hero of the Month: Susan Heske
The days are growing longer, and how wonderful it is to have more daylight. The time change is near, and Spring is almost here. There is a lot to grateful for during this change of seasons, including our Climate Hero of the Month for March, that we are so excited to celebrate, Susan Heske!
Take Action to Insure Our Future!
Feb. 28 and 29, 2024 – 350 Colorado, our local teams and partners joined forces to host several events around the state as part of the Insure Our Future global week of action calling on insurance companies to stop insuring and investing in fossil fuel companies and projects that are destabilizing our global climate.
New Report: PERA’s 2022 Shareholder Votes Fail to Address Climate, Discrimination, and Human Rights
Every year from April to June, publicly traded companies hold their annual shareholder meetings, in which every investor with a financial stake in the company votes on a series of resolutions, many of which are introduced by shareholders themselves. This voting period is known as “Proxy Season.”
The number of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) resolutions introduced in 2022 signals a rising level of engagement by shareholders that appears promising; the number of ESG shareholder proposals rose 20% since 2021, for a total of 529 ESG shareholder resolutions filed in 2022.