On January 6, 2020, Apple Inc. filed a definitive proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders to vote against the shareholder proposal of The National Center for Public Policy Research requesting that the Board of Directors authorize the preparation of a report, to be issued by December 2015, at a reasonable cost and excluding proprietary information, disclosing the risk to the company posed by possible changes in federal, state or local government policies in the United States relating to climate change and/or renewable energy in the upcoming annual general meeting to be held on March 10, 2015.