What GHG Target Regressions in the U.S. Mean for Investors
Investors highlight a range of stewardship considerations associated with tracking greenhouse gas target regressions by U.S. companies.
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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
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
Latest News
Climate Action 100+ Unveils Streamlined Net Zero Company Benchmark Framework for 2026
New partnership with World Benchmarking Alliance strengthens climate governance and absolute emissions assessment to support investor engagement on corporate transition
Read moreHow 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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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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