{"id":116109,"date":"2022-10-21T12:15:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T16:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116109"},"modified":"2022-10-21T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:07:45","slug":"church-of-england-pensions-board-begins-legal-proceedings-against-german-car-manufacturer-vw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116109","title":{"rendered":"Church of England Pensions Board begins legal proceedings against German car manufacturer VW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England Pensions Board, together with Swedish public pension funds AP7, AP2, AP3, AP4 and Danish AkademikerPension, has filed a case against Volkswagen AG, after it refused repeated attempts to reveal crucial information on its corporate climate lobbying activities.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time investors have started European litigation on a climate-related matter. The case was filed this week. <\/p>\n<p>The case will test whether VW has the right to refuse to include an item on the company AGM agenda proposed by VW&#8217;s shareholders at the 2023 AGM having previously refused investors shareholder resolutions. The group of investors are represented by German law firm Hausfeld Rechtsanw\u00e4lte LLP and supported by legal charity ClientEarth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-and-news\/press-releases\/church-england-pensions-board-begins-legal-proceedings-against-german\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pension funds bring legal action against VW over climate change lobbying activities<br \/>German carmaker Volkswagen is facing legal action by a coalition of five Swedish and Danish public pension funds and the Church of England Pensions\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/br98MdLCqE\">https:\/\/t.co\/br98MdLCqE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QLb35mqNTw\">https:\/\/t.co\/QLb35mqNTw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MountainJadey&#x1f577;&#x1f1ec;&#x1f1e7;&#x1f1ea;&#x1f1fa;&#x1f1fa;&#x1f1e6;&#x1f331;&#x2696;&#xfe0f; (@jadey_murray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jadey_murray\/status\/1583097788359135232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England Pensions Board, together with Swedish public pension funds AP7, AP2, AP3, AP4 and Danish AkademikerPension, has filed a case against Volkswagen AG, after it refused repeated attempts to reveal crucial information on its corporate climate lobbying<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116109\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,589,199,168,478,108,599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-germany","category-religion-culture","category-stock-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116111,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116109\/revisions\/116111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}