GLOBAL INVESTORS DRIVING BUSINESS TRANSITION

Climate Action 100+ is an investor-led initiative to ensure the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take appropriate action on climate change in order to mitigate financial risk and to maximize the long-term value of assets.

Initiative snapshot

  • 600+

    INVESTORS

    engaging the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitting companies

  • 168

    COMPANIES

    being engaged through the initiative across the planet

  • 75%

    of focus companies

    now have net zero commitments

  • 93%

    of focus companies

    now have board committee oversight of climate change risks and opportunities

INVESTOR NETWORKS

Climate Action 100+ is delivered by five investor networks working with the initiative’s investor signatories

  • AIG
  • Ceres
  • IGCC
  • IIGCC
  • PRI

Latest News

Latest Climate Action 100+ Benchmark shows decarbonisation is underway for many of the world’s largest corporate emitters, with a need for stronger climate transition action plans

Climate Action 100+, the world’s largest investor engagement initiative on climate change, has released the latest round of company assessments against the Net Zero Company Benchmark. The Benchmark assesses the performance – based on disclosures and alignment assessments – of 168 Climate Action 100+ focus companies against the initiative’s three high-level goals: improved governance, emissions reduction and enhanced climate-related disclosures. 

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THE BUSINESS CASE

The evidence is clear. Across the planet our economies and communities face systemic risks from climate change. To mitigate their exposure and secure ongoing sustainable returns for their beneficiaries, investors must ensure the businesses they own have strategies that deliver the transition to net-zero emissions by 2050, or sooner and align with the goal of the Paris Agreement, of limiting average global temperature rise to well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and pursuing efforts even further to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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