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10 of 12 ‘Say on Pay’ proposals filed by Meritas were implemented. SHARE wrote letters to 41 companies about…

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is calling on readers of sustainability reports worldwide to nominate their favourite reports from a shortlist of 105 organizations from 13 different countries…

Shareholders devote time and energy deciding whether to support the resolutions on their proxy ballots. The SEC’s Proxy Matters webpage is devoted to the more technical matter of helping smaller shareholders…

Northwest & Ethical Investments LP (Northwest & Ethical) filed a resolution with Barrick Gold asking the company to nominate a director with experience in corporate responsibility, environment or human rights and community engagement issues.

The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved an interpretative guidance to clarify what publicly-traded companies should disclose to investors in terms of the impact that material climate change-related developments could have on their business.

Dialogue is moving swiftly this year between Meritas and the Canadian companies at which it filed shareholder proposals asking for a say on pay.

Enbridge becomes the first oil and gas company in Canada to provide its shareholders with an advisory vote on executive compensation, beginning at its annual meeting in 2011.

In a news release today, Telus Corporation announced that its shareholders will have a non-binding vote on executive compensation, or ‘say on pay’, at its annual meeting in 2011.

On April 9, 2009, a Private Members Bill tabled by Ontario MPP Laurel Broten asked the OSC to review corporate reporting standards on environmental, social and corporate governance matters.

Goldman Sachs (Goldman) is no stranger to investor uproar about how much it pays its employees, especially senior managers. The billions in the bonus pool…