GLOBAL INVESTORS DRIVING BUSINESS TRANSITION

Climate Action 100+ is an investor-led initiative to ensure the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take appropriate action on climate change in order to mitigate financial risk and to maximize the long-term value of assets.

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Initiative snapshot

  • 600+

    INVESTORS

    engaging the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitting companies

  • 169

    COMPANIES

    being engaged through the initiative across the planet

  • 80%

    of focus companies

    have now set a long-term GHG reduction target 

  • 91%

    of focus companies

    now disclose board committee oversight of climate change risks and opportunities

INVESTOR NETWORKS

Climate Action 100+ is delivered by five investor networks working with the initiative’s investor signatories

  • AIG
  • Ceres
  • IGCC
  • IIGCC
  • PRI

Latest News

Valero records new asset retirement obligations, investors require long term transparency across the sector in the U.S.

In today’s era of rapid technological and geopolitical change, compounded by the growing impacts of the energy transition, companies’ financial statements, which are built on assumptions about the future, must be transparent and strategically aligned with existing reporting. However, the current state of climate-related information in U.S. oil and gas companies’ financial statement reporting is poor, exposing investors to unquantifiable financial and transition risks.

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Climate Action 100+ Benchmark results show mixed progress amongst the world’s highest-emitting companies

Climate Action 100+, the world’s largest investor engagement initiative focused on addressing climate change, has released the latest round of company assessments using the Net Zero Company Benchmark. This year, the Benchmark evaluated the performance of 164 Climate Action 100+ focus companies in line with the initiative’s three high-level goals: emissions reduction, climate governance, and climate-related disclosure.

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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 deliver 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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