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
Latest News
Investors welcome net zero emissions commitment from SK Innovation
SK Innovation aims to achieve net zero emissions before 2050, including scope 3 emissions
Read moreShareholders approve a climate lobbying proposal at Delta
This continues a winning streak that shows the importance of Paris-aligned climate policy
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“We need them to appoint climate experts to their boards, disclose their exposure to climate risks, clean up their… https://t.co/LOYxdGI1wU
Climate Action 100+ signatories believe that engaging with the companies they invest in, to secure greater disclosu… https://t.co/fFIcyssWVT
Improving disclosures — including lobbying activities — is a key engagement priority of #ClimateAction100+, its inv… https://t.co/MfvEQMeCJo
OUR GLOBAL FOOTPRINT
Click on one of our six regions to learn more about our work
Asia
31 Signatories
34 focus companies
$3.2TN market capitalisation
South America
2 Signatories
5 focus companies
$179BN market capitalisation
North America
145 Signatories
54 focus companies
$3.9TN market capitalisation
AUSTRALASIA
42 Signatories
15 focus companies
$352BN market capitalisation
Europe
331 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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