Shareholder action
As shareholders, the churches use their investments to engage corporations in dialogue. Through shareholder activism, the churches apply direct pressure on corporations to improve their social and environmental performance.
In addition, KAIROS offers a quarterly e-newsletter on corporate social responsibility issues, as well as regular shareholder action alerts during the proxy season. Companies generally hold their Annual General Meetings (AGMs) sometime between January and June. In order to remind socially responsible investors who are interested in voting their proxies during that time, KAIROS sends out e-mail action alerts listing upcoming shareholder proposals on social and environmental responsibility.
If you’d like to be put on the mailing list, please send a note to Ian Thomson, CSR Program Coordinator, at ithomson[at]kairoscanada[dot]org
Click here for what is new in responsible investing (January 2009)
Backgrounder on the Canadian churches’ engagement with Imperial Oil (2004)
Articles and news
- G20 Surrenders to the Money Traders
KAIROS latest Policy Briefing Paper provides an in-depth analysis of the G20 Meetings and Final...
- Briefings and Submissions, Corporate Accountability, Human rights, Kairos Times, Trade Justice | Jul 27, 2010
- What will be the fate of Canada’s Responsible Mining Bill?
When the House of Commons returns in September, one of the first things on the agenda will be...
- Corporate Accountability, Kairos Times, Resource Extraction, Trade Justice | Jun 28, 2010
- How Big is the BP Oil Slick? Bringing the Scale of the Disaster Home
To gain some sense of the magnitude of the BP oil spill, an interactive map provided by the Toronto...
- Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Ecology, Kairos Times, Resource Extraction, Oil and conflict, Opinion and Analysis, Water, The Tar Sands | Jun 14, 2010
