CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS, INC. | Disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions

Status
Withdrawn
AGM date
Resolution details
Company ticker
CHTR
Lead filer
Resolution ask
Report on or disclose
ESG theme
  • Environment
ESG sub-theme
  • GHG targets / emissions
Type of vote
Shareholder proposal
Filer type
Shareholder
Company sector
Telecom
Company HQ country
United States
Resolved clause
That shareholders of Charter Communications, Inc. (the “Company”) request the Board of Directors of the Company disclose as soon as reasonably practicable but no later than 150 days after each annual meeting of shareholders of the Company (beginning with the 2022 annual meeting of shareholders), a climate-related financial risk report (the “Climate Action Plan”) consistent with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. The Climate Action Plan should disclose the Company’s greenhouse gas emissions and its plan to reduce them and whether, how and to what extent such plans align with or vary from the ten Disclosure Indicators set forth in the Climate Action 100+ Net-Zero Company Benchmark (as outlined in the supporting statement below).
Supporting statement
As governments take steps to limit greenhouse gas emissions and mandate reporting in line with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure; disclosing reduction targets, detailing strategies for embedding climate change throughout their business models and services and providing progress therein to shareholders, is an important means of assuring shareholders that management is taking seriously the physical and transition risks associated with climate change.

The Climate Action 100+, an investor-led initiative focused on reducing corporate greenhouse gas emissions, has established a benchmark — the Climate Action 100+ Net-Zero Company Benchmark (the “Benchmark”) — to asses a company’s performance in the areas of emissions reduction, governance, and disclosure.

TCI is asking the Company to disclose to shareholders whether, how and to what extent the Company’s plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions are aligned with the following ten Disclosure Indicators:



(1)
Net-zero GHG Emissions by 2050 (or sooner) ambition;

(2)
Long-term (2036-2050) GHG reduction target(s);

(3)
Medium-term (2026-2035) GHG reduction target(s);

(4)
Short-term (up to 2025) GHG reduction target(s);

(5)
Decarbonisation strategy;

(6)
Capital allocation alignment;

(7)
Climate policy engagement;

(8)
Climate Governance;

(9)
Just transition: The company considers the impacts from transitioning to a lower-carbon business model on its workers and communities; and

(10)
TCFD Disclosure.

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