COP26: Moves to accelerate value chain decarbonisation
COP26 crowd mirrored collaboration needed across the value chain to decarbonise carbon intensive sectors
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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
- 615
INVESTORS
engaging the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitting companies
- $60
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
Time has run out for business as usual
Climate Action 100+ signatories will be ramping up their expectations for focus companies in the coming year, write SC members Stephanie Maier and Anne Simpson
Read moreThe new hot topic: accounting for climate
Key themes from Carbon Tracker’s event at COP26 featuring speakers from CalPERS, Sarasin & Partners, IFRS and KPMG
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Climate Action 100+ flagged 18 shareholder votes during the 2021 proxy season. New analysis from @CeresNews finds t… https://t.co/yj519b9Ylr
7 December 2021
“This kind of coordinated action can amplify the power that comes with retaining a stake and engaging.”… https://t.co/uX8P6Ml0lE
6 December 2021
International investors are increasingly cautious about financing fossil fuel projects, says @laurahillis… https://t.co/JMxqlnLaln
2 December 2021
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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