Net Zero Company Benchmark Update

Climate Action 100+ has released the latest evolution – Benchmark 2.0 – of the Net Zero Company Benchmark. See what's new ➜

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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 necessary action on climate change.

Initiative snapshot

  • 700

    INVESTORS

    engaging the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitting companies

  • $68

    TRILLION IN ASSETS

    managed by investors participating in the initiative

  • 166

    COMPANIES

    being engaged through the initiative across the planet

  • 80%+

    Global industrial emissions

    estimated to be covered by focus companies

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

2023 Proxy Season: Just Transition

Planning for a Just Transition is no longer a trade off with the necessary pace of decarbonization, but a vital consideration on the route to net zero. Read more about the Just Transition here as part of our proxy season explainer series.

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OUR GLOBAL FOOTPRINT

Click on one of our six regions to learn more about our work

Asia

Investors

31 Signatories

Companies

34 focus companies

$3.2TN market capitalisation

South America

Investors

2 Signatories

Companies

5 focus companies

$179BN market capitalisation

North America

Investors

145 Signatories

Companies

54 focus companies

$3.9TN market capitalisation

AUSTRALASIA

Investors

42 Signatories

Companies

15 focus companies

$352BN market capitalisation

Europe

Investors

331 Signatories

Companies

56 focus companies

$2.9TN market capitalisation

Africa

Investors

2 Signatories

Companies

3 focus companies

$14BN market capitalisation

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 accelerate 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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