Air Liquide Recognition Statement From Climate Action 100+ Lead Investors
Investors engaging Air Liquide through Climate Action 100+ welcome recent steps
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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
Latest News
Describe & Quantify: Understanding the Benchmark’s decarbonisation strategy indicator
The importance of companies quantifying their decarbonisation strategies and meeting the Benchmark’s requirements
Read moreEngaging for ambition in Asia
Climate Action 100+ publishes an updated investor guide to support corporate engagement on climate issues in Asia
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‘The surge in corporate commitments also reflects the realization that investors are serious about holding board me… https://t.co/UsZWC6i2bM
3 August 2022
"...Setting emissions reduction targets is an important first step for corporate emitters. But it is critical that… https://t.co/QeBOf2Ip4L
29 July 2022
Majority of people in over 200 countries are concerned about #climatechange and believe it should be a high priorit… https://t.co/EieBK0qE1B
26 July 2022
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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