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Campaign for Extended Producer Responsibility
Portfolio 21 Investments supports As You Sow’s campaign and shareholder proposal urging Proctor & Gamble to expand its packaging initiatives to include Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). EPR is a corporate and public policy that shifts accountability for financing the collection and recycling of materials from taxpayers and governments to producers. …
Improve Environmental Reporting in Small Cap Companies
Portfolio 21 engaged with four of its small cap holdings, Generac, Tennant, Ameresco, and Ormat, to encourage action on initiating environmental reporting,. Portfolio 21 has found that many smaller companies do not track environmental key performance indicators, or they may track some data but not make it publicly available. By…
Support for Alien Tort Statute in Shell Case
The U.S. Alien Tort Statute (ATS) was part of the Judiciary Act of 1789; ATS was revived in 1980 and has become an essential statute in protecting human rights committed by both individuals and corporations. ATS currently allows foreign individuals to bring civil suits in U.S. courts for violations of…
Increase Gender Diversity on Company Boards
Portfolio 21 joined with other industry leaders including business executives, elected officials, labor unions, and board members in a new initiative called the Thirty Percent Coalition. The coalition was founded to urge companies to increase the gender diversity of their boards of directors to 30% of board seats across public…
Diversification does not assure a profit nor protect against loss in a declining market.
