US activist shareholders push Amazon on everything from facial recognition to climate change


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 14 Mar 2019

A group of Amazon employees who have submitted a shareholder proposal urging the company to disclose its climate-change plans stand in front of the Amazon spheres. Their proposal is one of 15 submitted by activist investors, including members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. (Rebeka Welch/The Seattle Times/TNS)

SEATTLE: Amazon is now the No. 1 target of activist shareholders. 

The Seattle-based global commerce and technology giant was pushed past ExxonMobil and Chevron in 2019, receiving the most shareholder resolutions focused on corporate environmental, social and governance issues. 

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