Climate Action 100+ is an investor-led initiative to ensure the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change.
engaging the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitting companies
managed by investors participating in the initiative
being engaged through the initiative across the planet
estimated to be covered by focus companies
Climate Action 100+ is delivered by five investor networks working with the initiative’s investor signatories
Flagged director votes at Chevron and Volkswagen highlight director accountability, urging corporate boards to stop undermining the energy transition with obstructive lobbying; and at Valero to start envisioning how they can succeed in a clean energy future.
Read morePlanning for a Just Transition is no longer a trade off with the necessary pace of decarbonization, but a vital consideration on the route to net zero. Read more about the Just Transition here as part of our proxy season explainer series.
Read moreWhat's an ARO? As Climate Action 100+ release more flagged votes this week, the initiative continues its explanatory series for the fast approaching proxy season. This week's article covers climate accounting and asset retirement obligations.
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UPDATE: With proxy season swiftly approaching, the next round of flagged shareholder proposals and other votes are… https://t.co/uJ5uwXb5W2
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31 Signatories
34 focus companies
$3.2TN market capitalisation
2 Signatories
5 focus companies
$179BN market capitalisation
145 Signatories
54 focus companies
$3.9TN market capitalisation
42 Signatories
15 focus companies
$352BN market capitalisation
331 Signatories
56 focus companies
$2.9TN market capitalisation
2 Signatories
3 focus companies
$14BN market capitalisation
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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