Standard Bank has issued a formal response to shareholders declining to table a resolution on climate change ahead of the bank’s annual general meeting on 27 May.
The back and forth between the nonprofit shareholder activism organisation, Just Share, and Standard Bank began last year when the organisation asked the bank to recuse directors with direct and indirect links to the fossil fuel industry after the first climate resolution was turned down.
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