While at Majority Action, Kasgarod-Staub led a failed fundraising campaign to gain shareholder votes for the purpose of ousting Sandra Froman, a director at firearms manufacturer Sturm Ruger and former National Rifle Association president. According to his LinkedIn page, Kasargod-Staub formerly worked for the Service Employees International Union and the Australian Council of Trade Unions and sits on the board of Bend the Arc, a left-of-center Jewish-focused advocacy group. The executive director of Climate Majority Project is Eli Kasargod-Staub, who was the co-founder and executive director of Majority Action prior to the merger with 50/50. The report claims that these same companies lead the fight against combatting climate change, face the highest risk from climate change, lack climate risk and political spending oversight, and need environmentalist-aligned board members. ĥ0/50 produced a report titled Spending Against Change illustrating that over 20 of the largest American energy and utility companies invested almost $700 million on political spending. Therefore, its focus is on influencing corporate boards of directors and shareholders to make policy decisions based upon the threat of climate change. ĥ0/50 interprets the advent of President Donald Trump’s environmental policies as a lesson that relying only on the government to impact climate change and environmental policy is insufficient. A central tactic is to use shareholder voting pressure to add environmentalist activists to boards of directors the group succeeded 26 out of 34 times, including at Chevron and only narrowly losing at Exxon.
The predecessor organization 50/50 was named to represent its 50 institutional investors which are worth $13 trillion that seek to change environmental policies in 50 of the largest energy companies. Climate Majority Project’s leadership are drawn from left-progressive activist backgrounds including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and United Auto Workers (UAW) labor unions and activist groups like Color of Change. The group seeks to add one or more select climate activists for environmental oversight to boards of directors in companies like Exxon and Chevron.Ĭlimate Majority Project was created from a merger between 50/50 and Majority Action. Climate Majority Project (formerly 50/50 Climate Project) is a left-of-center environmentalist organization that focuses on influencing corporation’s decisions and direction towards adopting the environmentalist agenda.
0 kommentar(er)
