Climate Action 100+ flagged vote at General Electric wins record support from shareholders
Landmark vote speaks to the power of investor engagement through Climate Action 100+
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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
- 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
Corporate climate action: through a glass, darkly
Blog by Jaakko Kooroshy, head, SI data and methodologies, and Felix Fouret, senior SI analyst, at FTSE Russell
Read moreClimate Action 100+ investors support new ExxonMobil slate of directors with climate and industry expertise
Investors also flag additional governance resolutions as it engages to hold the largest corporate emitters accountable for progress on climate change
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"Investors are also using their leverage with high-emission companies through #ClimateAction100+...this group is ac… https://t.co/KydD3v6glt
5 May 2021
The GE management team’s decision to recommend shareholders support the resolution was “an unusual move that furthe… https://t.co/cbjEPIAlJa
5 May 2021
The GE shareholder resolution was a critical test case for the #ClimateAction100+ investor initiative, referencing… https://t.co/vKLnwSjOFs
5 May 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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