On March 11, 2024, Green Century Capital Management, filed a preliminary proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders of International Business Machines Corporation to vote for the shareholder proposal to adopt independently verified short-, medium- and long-term science-based greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, inclusive of emissions from its full value chain, in order to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, which is in line with the Paris Agreement?s goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.