Translating distant net zero targets into near-term action
Stephanie Maier and Stephanie Pfeifer share five reflections from their leadership of the Climate Action 100+ global steering committee
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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
A need for robust just transition planning
Exploring why a just transition is important for investors and key findings from the Climate Action 100+ just transition beta indicator
Read moreAs 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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"Driving material change will be achieved by connecting the value chains across entire sectors" - why constraining… https://t.co/lINyv09tjB
29 June 2022
MSCI Net Zero Tracker report finds that the world’s biggest companies must cut carbon intensity by 8-10% every year… https://t.co/iY8xhq5N5o
29 June 2022
"Real-world events continue to shape the backdrop against which investors engage with companies as part of… https://t.co/NQuOdy54mX
27 June 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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