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
Latest News
LATEST NET ZERO COMPANY BENCHMARK RESULTS SHOW SLOW PROGRESS FOR AUSTRALIAN FOCUS COMPANIES
Australian focus company assessments released early to provide investors with updated Benchmark data ahead of regional AGMs.
Read moreCLIMATE ACTION 100+ RELEASES THE FIRST NET ZERO STANDARD FOR DIVERSIFIED MINING
As providers of transition materials, mining companies play a vital role in decarbonisation. Some are, however, exposed to significant transition risks. For the first time, this standard will provide investors with the necessary metrics to help assess diversified mining companies’ transition plans to net zero. The Standard will now enter pilot mode, in which metrics will be tested for practicality and feed into a final metrics list. Assessment results from this pilot will enrich investor engagements with new, impactful insights.
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Find out how investors engaging American Electric Power through Climate Action 100+ encouraged the company’s first… https://t.co/7EvDhhoMqT
OUR GLOBAL FOOTPRINT
Click on one of our six regions to learn more about our work
Asia
51 Signatories
27 focus companies
$3.2TN market capitalisation
South America
4 Signatories
6 focus companies
$179BN market capitalisation
North America
181 Signatories
54 focus companies
$3.9TN market capitalisation
AUSTRALASIA
54 Signatories
14 focus companies
$352BN market capitalisation
Europe
439 Signatories
56 focus companies
$2.9TN market capitalisation
Africa
2 Signatories
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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