Unlocking the 2025 Proxy Season: Five Shocking Insights Every Investor Needs to Know Now
Proposals challenging corporate ESG efforts—anti-ESG submissions—fared even worse. Although more than 35 such proposals were introduced, Harvard found, they earned median support of just over 1%.
Withdrawn Proposals Doubled
Withdrawn proposals have been a prominent feature of the 2025 season. Roughly 160 proposals were withdrawn in 2025, more than double last year’s total of 66, according to Cooley. And only 251 environmental and social proposals made it to a vote, down from 393 such proposals in 2024. Cooley suggests that the increase in withdrawals could reflect greater willingness to negotiate by shareholder proposal backers aware of the declining shareholder support for environmental and social proposals as well as the possibility of no-action relief following Staff Legal Bulletin No. 14M.
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