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.

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Initiative snapshot

  • 600+

    INVESTORS

    engaging the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitting companies

  • 169

    COMPANIES

    being engaged through the initiative across the planet

  • 80%

    of focus companies

    have now set a long-term GHG reduction target 

  • 91%

    of focus companies

    now disclose 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

How investor engagement helped strengthen Centrica’s climate transition plan

Climate Action 100+ investor engagement has supported Centrica in strengthening its Climate Transition Plan, improving both ambition and disclosure. Through sustained dialogue since 2021, investors engaged with the company’s management and board on key transition issues, including decarbonisation pathways, capital allocation and policy alignment. These discussions informed Centrica’s updated plan, published in January 2025, which introduced clearer, quantified decarbonisation levers and contributed to increased shareholder support at the company’s 2025 AGM.

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Valero records new asset retirement obligations, investors require long term transparency across the sector in the U.S.

In today’s era of rapid technological and geopolitical change, compounded by the growing impacts of the energy transition, companies’ financial statements, which are built on assumptions about the future, must be transparent and strategically aligned with existing reporting. However, the current state of climate-related information in U.S. oil and gas companies’ financial statement reporting is poor, exposing investors to unquantifiable financial and transition risks.

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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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