CA100+ investors engage with BASF on climate neutrality
Major chemicals company BASF has announced its target for net zero CO2 emissions globally by 2050 and 25 percent reduction by 2030
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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
- 575
INVESTORS
engaging the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitting companies
- $54
TRILLION IN ASSETS
managed by investors participating in the initiative
- 167
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
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Engaging through #ClimateAction100+, @NNIP and @MandGInsights are pleased to welcome @BASF's increased aspiration a… https://t.co/XhbsrDNixY
9 April 2021
[email protected] has been tracking and analysing 136 climate-related shareholder resolutions filed so far this year, ref… https://t.co/hSO2po7WdE
9 April 2021
As we enter 2021 Proxy Season, catch up on which key proposals #ClimateAction100+ is flagging to advance the goals… https://t.co/7XcHyb3xqc
7 April 2021
OUR GLOBAL FOOTPRINT
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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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