As 2022 proxy season begins, record numbers of climate resolutions and agreements bode well for action
Investors file a record 215 climate-related shareholder resolutions this year
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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
Climate Action 100+ flags first-ever net zero accounting-related resolutions at FTSE 100, CRH, ahead of AGM
Sarasin & Partners pre-declares votes against three audit resolutions following repeated failure to meet expectations over climate accounting
Read moreClimate Action 100+ Net Zero Company Benchmark shows an increase in company net zero commitments, but much more urgent action is needed to align with a 1.5°C future
Second round of Net Zero Company Benchmark assessments show some corporate climate progress against key climate indicators, but find much more action is urgently needed from focus companies to support global efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C.
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📢 Update: New flagged shareholder proposals and other votes at #ClimateAction100+ focus companies Chevron and Exxon… https://t.co/VCdAZgRtFc
16 May 2022
[email protected] references new Climate Accounting and Audit indicator used in the most recent #ClimateAction100+ Net Zero… https://t.co/T3lUViANh2
16 May 2022
📢 Update: New flagged shareholder proposals and other votes at #ClimateAction100+ focus companies Caterpillar, Cono… https://t.co/ffZAYab2Jn
10 May 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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