laurencebascle | 28 April 2016
Blog & Articles
Preventable Surprises will be watching carefully how investors stand on climate risk issues with respect to the proxy vote at the Southern Company on May 25th,... continue reading
laurencebascle | 26 April 2016
Media Coverage
More than 75 civil society organisations have today published an open letter to the chairs of the world’s largest publicly listed oil companies urging them to... continue reading
laurencebascle | 23 April 2016
Media Coverage
Bloomberg Radio recently interviewed Raj about the high-level signing ceremony convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to begin implementing the Paris Agreement. Raj explains what investors... continue reading
laurencebascle | 21 April 2016
Media Coverage
Preventable Surprises friend & collaborator Jon Lukomnik recently analysed on the Huffington Post the insights of the IRRCi/SI2 report on American utility industries. This is particularly... continue reading
Raj Thamotheram | 15 April 2016
Blog & Articles, Media Coverage
This article was first published in Sustainable Brands At BP’s 2015 Annual General Meeting (AGM), 4.12% of the company’s investors either ‘abstained’ (2.4%) or voted ‘against’... continue reading
Raj Thamotheram | 13 April 2016
Blog & Articles
Investors and others (regulators in particular) should want to do a careful “lessons learnt” exercise about this latest corporate implosion. Some questions they should ask include: How... continue reading
laurencebascle | 11 April 2016
Blog & Articles
Some good news from the USA! The SEC have ruled against Exxon and shareholders will now have the right to vote on a resolution which asks... continue reading
laurencebascle | 11 April 2016
Media Coverage
Canada’s Globe and Mail recently published an article on forceful stewardship following the announcement by the University of Toronto that it would direct its $6.5-billion in... continue reading
Raj Thamotheram | 5 April 2016
Blog & Articles
The Guardian reports on a new study by leading economists on the cost effectiveness of taking action to force the transition to a low carbon world. The... continue reading