Key Shareholder Resolutions to Vote in 2026

Shareholder democracy under attack 

The 2026 proxy voting season is in full swing, with corporate annual general meetings (AGMs) happening throughout April, May, and June.  

But the number of environmental, social, and sustainable governance (ESG) shareholder resolutions on corporate ballots is down 47% from last year, which itself was down 22% from the year before.  

There are several reasons for this trend: 

• 42 of the 184 ESG resolutions, or 22%, were withdrawn due to companies reaching agreements with shareholder proponents, making a vote unnecessary. 

• Federal rule changes meant corporations could decide not to include a shareholder resolution on the ballot without intervention by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 

• Ongoing political and legal attacks on sustainable investing, institutional investors, and proxy analysts have created a hostile environment for shareholders who otherwise might have filed resolutions.  

Important issues, groundbreaking resolutions 

Even with fewer resolutions this year, there are still many important issues on corporate ballots in 2026. Some of the issues raised include:  

• 45 proposals addressing corporate political influence through political contributions and lobbying. 

• 39 resolutions addressing climate change, including emissions disclosures, methane, and climate transition planning, especially for data centers. 

• 30 proposals on data protection, indigenous peoples, environmental justice, and ethical aspects of artificial intelligence 

• 24 resolutions on labor standards, working conditions, workplace diversity, and immigration policy 

• 22 proposals on environmental management, including pesticides, plastics, biodiversity, and agricultural management 

In the mix are several ground-breaking resolutions: 

• Asking Alphabet (parent of Google) and Amazon to report on their climate commitments given growing energy demand from data centers. 

• Asking Dominion Energy and Southern Company to address stranded assets and infrastructure costs from data centers. 

• Asking Chubb to evaluate subrogation – the strategy of suing a third party to recover insurance costs – as a strategy to reduce climate risk. 

• Asking GE Aerospace and Palantir to evaluate the use of their products on human rights. 

• Asking Abbott Laboratories and Merck to disclose their use of horseshoe crabs in endotoxin testing. 

• Asking Alphabet, Amazon, and Walmart to report on impacts of US immigration policy and enforcement on their operations. 

• Asking Meta (parent of Facebook) to incorporate child safety into its executive compensation program. 

If you own company stock directly (not in a mutual fund), we urge you to vote your values on the company's resolutions. 

Below you will find a list of 2026 shareholder resolutions as of March 17, grouped by company name and by issue.

Read your proxy ballots carefully and cast your votes to reflect your values. Here are quick tips on how to read a proxy ballot. 

Thanks to As You Sow and Proxy Impact, publishers of the 2026 Proxy Preview, for assistance in compiling the lists below that provide a sample of some of the key resolutions facing Corporate America.  

Green America is proud to co-sponsor the 2026 Proxy Preview -- download your free copy for information on important shareholder resolutions trends and upcoming votes.  

Please note that each company's proxy ballot may not exactly match the shareholder resolutions we list here. This list is based on Proxy Preview, which was published this year in April. Often companies challenge shareholder resolutions at the SEC, or a resolution may be withdrawn by its sponsor. If that occurs after Proxy Preview goes to print, you may not see that resolution listed on the company's proxy ballot. 

Definitions

Here are definitions of key abbreviations and terms you’ll see in our short descriptions of the shareholder resolutions: 

• GHG = greenhouse gas 

• Net-zero GHG emissions = “net zero means cutting greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions to as close to zero as possible, with any remaining emissions re-absorbed from the atmosphere, by oceans and forests for instance” – United Nations 

• Paris-compliant = Ensuring that actions support the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels. U.N. Climate Change; The Paris Agreement 

• Scope 3 = “….emissions a company is responsible for outside of its own walls—from the goods it purchases to the disposal of the products it sells? In fact, the majority of total corporate emissions come from Scope 3 sources,…” Greenhouse Gas Protocol 

• ILO Labor Standards = International Labor Standards; United National International Labor Standards 

Shareholder rights and shareholder democracy

As a share owner, you are a part-owner of the company, and voting your proxy is an important responsibility.

• Learn about your shareholder rights! Shareholder Proposals: An Essential Investor Right, by the Shareholder Rights Group, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and US SIF, catalogues the role of shareholder resolutions in creating a powerful platform for challenging and improving corporate policies, practices, performance and impacts, and in surfacing investor perspectives on material issues. 

• Learn about Shareholder Democracy, a movement to transform corporate governance by empowering nonprofit civil society organizations to represent shareholders of publicly traded companies.

Thank you for voting your values! Post this “I'm voting” badge on social media and let people know you're proud to raise your voice on important issues as a shareholder. Click to share to Facebook or Twitter.

New app makes rocking your proxy votes easy! Learn about As You Vote from our allies at As Your Sow, with an individual investor app on the iconik platform.

Green America is not an investment adviser nor do we provide financial planning, legal, or tax advice. Nothing in our communications or materials shall constitute or be construed as an offering of financial instruments or as investment advice or investment recommendations.