Support for shareholder proposal on methane emissions management at Kinder Morgan
8 May 2018
Our rationale
We will support the shareholder resolution asking for a report reviewing Kinder Morgan Inc’s policies, actions and plans to measure, monitor, mitigate, disclose and set quantitative reduction targets for methane emissions from all operations, including storage and transportation.
We encourage companies to integrate material climate change challenges and opportunities in their business management. Companies engaged in activities with large greenhouse gas emissions or intensities, including fugitive methane emissions, should have a strategy addressing a transition to a low-emissions energy system and should develop a framework to monitor such emissions.
We encourage the transparent disclosure of material greenhouse gas emissions to appropriate, internationally recognised reporting initiatives to better enable investors to analyse climate-related risks and opportunities. For example, the supplemental guidance of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) encourages companies in the energy sector to disclose fugitive emissions. Benchmarks and targets, and performance against these, should be quantified where relevant.
