Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000032
Chunk: 102

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 102
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, Maryland, 20854, holder of 747 shares of Southern Company common stock, submitted the following proposal.

#### Net Zero Audit
Resolved :

Shareholders request that, beginning in 2026, Southern Company report annually to shareholders on its net zero activities, including: memberships in organizations advocating net zero goals and policies, activities and transactions involving net zero goals and policies, and corporate commitments or agreements involving net zero goals and policies. The report should omit proprietary and/or confidential business information.

Supporting Statement :

Southern Company has committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2050. https://www.southerncompany.com/newsroom/clean-energy/plan-on-net-zero-carbon-emissions-goal.html

But there are significant problems associated with “net zero” goals and policies:

4 The utility industry has determined that economy-wide “net zero” is not possible. https://lcri-netzero.epri.com/

4 The most recent United Nations “Emission Gap” report indicates that emissions have steadily increased on global basis since 1990. https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2024

4 The United Nations World Meteorological Organization recently concluded that there “no end in sight to the rising trend” of greenhouse gas emissions. https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143607

4 The financial sector has now begun questioning the validity of current net zero policies and advocacy. https://www.iif.com/portals/0/Files/content/Regulatory/32370132_iif_staff_position_paper_on_net_zero_transition_final_publication.pdf

4 The state of New York has sued companies for allegedly making false “net zero” claims. https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2024/attorney-general-james-sues-worlds-largest-beef-producer-misrepresenting

#### Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement87

#### Stockholder Proposals
4 The attorneys general for Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Tennessee are investigating whether corporate “net zero” claims amount to consumer fraud.

4 Activist groups have sued corporations for false “net zero” claims. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/green-group-sues-tyson-foods-allegedly-false-climate-claims-2024-09-18/

4 Corporations are abandoning “net zero” pledges. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/08/ftse-100-companies-ditch-jeff-bezos-funded-climate-pledge/

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