Net Zero Company Benchmark Update

Climate Action 100+ has released the latest round of company assessments against its newly updated and more ambitious Net Zero Company Benchmark. Learn more ➜

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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

  • 170

    COMPANIES

    being engaged through the initiative across the planet

  • 75%

    of focus companies

    now have net zero commitments

INVESTOR NETWORKS

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

  • AIG
  • Ceres
  • IGCC
  • IIGCC
  • PRI

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OUR GLOBAL FOOTPRINT

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

Asia

Investors

51 Signatories

Companies

27 focus companies

$3.2TN market capitalisation

South America

Investors

4 Signatories

Companies

6 focus companies

$179BN market capitalisation

North America

Investors

181 Signatories

Companies

54 focus companies

$3.9TN market capitalisation

AUSTRALASIA

Investors

54 Signatories

Companies

14 focus companies

$352BN market capitalisation

Europe

Investors

439 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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