Campaigning
Campaigning is a key part of ShareAction's drive towards improving corporate behaviour through Responsible Investment. We aim to mobilise the financial power of pension investments to create change: as major shareholders in companies, pension funds have enormous power to improve corporate behaviour on the environment and human rights. ShareAction campaigns to ensure that this investor power is harnessed.
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Current Campaigns
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Deflate the Carbon BubbleShareAction's Carbon Bubble action tool is giving savers the opportunity to demand that their pension funds factor in the risk of climate change. Our pensions are being invested in fossil fuel companies whose behaviour is harmful to the planet and our savings. If you'd like to pension funds to protect the planet and our savings you can take action today. |
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Out in the Cold: Shell and Arctic DrillingShareAction, Greenpeace and Platform have published a report looking at Shell's plans to drill for oil in The Arctic. The report warns that Shelll’s plans for Arctic exploration expose investors to a ‘spectrum of risks’, The report, available here, highlights Shell’s failure to address key concerns for investors and environmentalists. |
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Your Say on Pay: Tackling Excessive Executive RemunerationIn May 2012 ShareAction launched the 'Your Say on Pay' campaign to tackle spiralling boardroom rewards. The campaign gives savers a chance to email their pensions funds and stocks & shares ISAs urging them to vote against excessive remuneration proposals at company AGMs. If you'd like to see an end to the culture of rewards for failure you can take action today. |
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JustPay! The campaign for a Living WageShareAction's JustPay! Campaign aims to permanently embed Living Wage standards in the UK's private sector, beginning with the biggest companies on the London Stock Exchange, namely the FTSE 100. Find out more about how ShareAction is calling on the UK's biggest companies to pay their workers Living Wages. |
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Chevron Corporation: Time to Change CourseShareAction is working with investors to examine Chevron's aggressive and much criticised management of a lawsuit on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in Ecuador. |
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A Legacy of Liability: Shell and the Niger DeltaShareAction is highlighting to investors the risks facing the Shell group and shareholders as a result of their operations in the Niger Delta. |
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Taxing QuestionsTax is joining high pay as an issue at FTSE100 companies’ AGMs, with boards facing tough questions about their use of tax havens, financial secrecy and whether – with complex chains of subsidiaries stretching across the globe - they know what is really going on. |
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Stay Connected: Telecoms and Human RightsIn July 2011 ShareAction teamed up with our new member organisation, New York based digital rights campaigners Access, to mobilise shareholders over the issue of telecommunication companies ("telecoms") and human rights abuses. Recent events in the Middle East have shone a spotlight on the role that telecoms have played in the suppression of pro-democracy movements. |
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Influencing the Investment IndustryAn important part of ShareAction's campaigning is direct engagement with pension funds and fund managers. Through investor engagement, regular briefings and publications and attending AGMs, we aim to show investors how Responsible Investment will complement and support their long-term financial best interests, as well as improving corporate impacts of human rights and the environment. |
Past Campaigns
ShareAction has a history of highly effective campaigning for Responsible Investment. Working with leading international charities Oxfam and CAFOD, we've successfully campaigned to secure the availability of affordable generic medicines in developing countries, and mobilised hundreds of pension-holders to call for action on destructive mining practices.