NEWS /  The Church of England Pensions Board, together with investors with assets totalling nearly £50bn, has filed a shareholder resolution at Rio Tinto calling on the company to review and fully disclose its relationships with industry bodies.

The Church Commissioners for England today reiterated support for the climate-related shareholder resolution, filed against the board of ExxonMobil, and calls on Exxon not to block the resolution going to a vote in 2020. 

Church Commissioners for England file shareholder proposal asking ExxonMobil to set goals in-line with Paris Agreement.

Intervention comes on the 3rd anniversary of the Brumadinho Disaster that killed 270 people

A year long global initiative is being launched to define an investor agenda to be achieved by 2030 for the mining sector.  

NEWS / Investors give mining companies 45 days for full disclosure on tailings storage facilities

The Church of England Pensions Board, together with Swedish public pension funds AP7, AP2, AP3, AP4 and Danish AkademikerPension, has filed a case against Volkswagen AG. 

Board tracks progress in its second annual Stewardship Report and outlines shift in engagement focus from the supply side oil and gas to demand side such as the auto sector

Volkswagen AG (VW) has rejected a shareholder proposal sent last week from seven European investors urging the company to explain how its lobbying activities help to address climate risks. 

On the 2nd anniversary of the Brumadinho tailings dam disaster, the Church of England Pensions Board, together with the Council of Ethics of the Swedish National Pension Funds leading a collaboration of investors committed to further interventions to drive change in the mining sector on tailings dams.