Unilever – Driving Progress on Climate Policy Engagement
Discover how one of the world's largest consumer goods companies engaged in climate-related lobbying through Climate Action 100+.
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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
- 169
COMPANIES
being engaged through the initiative across the planet
- 80%
of focus companies
now have net zero commitments
- 90%
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
Latest News
Looking back on a year of challenges, evolution and progress
March marked the end of my tenure as chair of the Climate Action 100+ global Steering Committee. As Valeria Piani, Head of Stewardship at Phoenix Group, prepares to take over as the initiative’s incoming chair, I wanted to take a moment and reflect on the past year.
Read moreJoint statement: Enel and Investors recognise the added value of engagement on coal disclosures
In June 2023, a group of investors, members of the Italian Sustainable Investment Forum (ItaSIF - Forum per la Finanza Sostenibile*) and a select group of Climate Action 100+** investor signatories, developed three expectations for Enel.
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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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