Protests on the occasion the Annual General Meeting on 18 June
“Transparency and human rights in the BASF supply chain – Now!” Protest in Ludwigshafen, Germany in the run-up to the BASF AGM 2020
Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg, Cologne, Hamburg, Johannesburg, Berlin – This year’s virtual Annual Meeting of BASF on June 18 will be accompanied by protests outside the company’s headquarters in Ludwigshafen and online. The international network Plough Back the Fruits is calling for a binding supply chain law that will finally get companies like BASF to address human rights violations in their global supply chains. In view of the Corona pandemic, the network is asking BASF to forego the payment of a dividend. Weiterlesen
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Re agenda item 2: Adoption of a resolution on the appropriation of profit
The Association of Ethical Shareholders Germany proposes that no dividend be distributed. Instead, the entire profit retained for 2019 is to be used as a provision for
for a fund to combat the corona pandemic and mitigate its economic consequences
for the creation of added value for society;
for maintaining jobs instead of reducing them;
for the establishment of a fund to compensate the widows, survivors and injured in the Marikana massacre
Rationale:
In the middle of the corona crisis, which is accompanied by great uncertainty for the economy and society, BASF SE wants to increase the dividend from 3.20 to 3.30 euros per share. Weiterlesen
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Uniper’s Power station Staudinger. Photo: Philipp Wedel CC BY-SA 3.0
Re agenda item 5: Resolution on the discharge of the members of Uniper SE’s Management Board for financial year 2019
Ethical Shareholders Germany moves not to discharge the members of the Management Board.
Reasons: The Management Board of Uniper SE does not meet the requirements of the Paris Climate Change Convention and the UN’s guiding principles for business and human rights. Uniper’s central business model, power generation using the fossil fuels coal and gas, makes a decisive contribution to climate change.
Datteln IV: Adherence to power plant highlights problems of relying on coal-fired power generation
In order to still get the Datteln IV coal-fired power plant on the grid despite the coal phase-out, Uniper has offered to shut down its remaining coal-fired power plant units. Weiterlesen
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byChristian Russau, human rights activist and board member of Ethical Shareholders Germany
Foto: Rafi Bablan, CC BY 2.5
As Bayer takes advantages of the new german shareholder participation laws in times of Corona‘s social distancing, for us, who we are human rights activists, this year it is not possible to take an active part in Bayer‘s AGM to criticize Bayer‘s directory board directly as we did the last decades. But, nonetheless our critic is more important than ever. So, here we go:
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Like the
previous speakers I will also deliver this speech in English and then there
will be a German translation.
My name is
Varsha, I am 17 years old and an organiser for School Strike for Climate
Australia. Since I was born, CO2 has risen from around 313 ppm to 407 ppm. It’s
scary to know that without urgent emission reductions, we could reach a point
of no return in just 10 years – when I will be 27.
Australia
has suffered an unprecedented bushfire crisis this summer. We have faced walls of flames over 70 metres
high. Our biggest cities have been blanketed in hazardous smoke, 35 people have
died, over 2000 homes have been turned into ash and more than a billion animals
have been killed. Weiterlesen
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Mr Kaeser, we were born in the same year. 1957. When I was a young woman and wanted to travel, I was told that the world would always be there. There was no rush. How times have changed for the youth of today and tomorrow.
In the four and a half years my husband and I have been operating two boats in the Whitsundays in the Great Barrier Reef, entire bays full of coral and fish have been wiped out by Cyclone Debbie – one of the strongest cyclones we’ve ever experienced. Cyclones are getting stronger and more intense because of climate change. Weiterlesen
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Dear Sirs and madams, Dear managing board and supervisory board,
My name is
Khadja Bedati, I speak for the Sahrawi Youth and the Association of ethical shareholders.
This is not
the first time that I criticize Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy’s wind turbines
in the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, which were erected without the consent
of the Sahrawi people. Last year, Mr Kaeser, you referred me to Siemens Gamesa
and promised answers that I have not yet received. I am asking you for those
answers today, you cannot continue to hide behind your subsidiary, in which you
are the majority shareholder with a 67% stake. Weiterlesen
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Regarding
Agenda Item 3: To ratify the acts of the members of the Managing Board
Ratification
of the acts of the members of the Managing Board shall be denied.
Rationale:
The
Managing Board of Siemens AG is not sufficiently fulfilling its responsibility
with regard to developing more effective climate protection measures. Measures
to date are not sufficient to make a contribution towards reaching the goals of
the Paris Agreement or the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to
which Siemens AG is committed.
Australia:
Participation in the Adani Mine contradicts previous climate protection
promises
The
decision to supply rail signaling technology for the planned Adani coal mine in
Australia is an example of the lack of awareness for the problems associated
with participating in climate damaging projects. Weiterlesen
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