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 maximize the long-term value of assets. Recognizing that economies and communities face systemic risks from climate change, Climate Action 100+ works to ensure that investors mitigate their exposure and secure ongoing sustainable returns for their beneficiaries by ensuring 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 to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Why it matters: Climate Action 100+ mobilizes investors to use their power as asset owners to demand climate action from the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters, demonstrating that financial risk from climate change requires investors to ensure businesses transition to net-zero emissions rather than continuing business as usual. By focusing on the world’s largest emitters and aligning investor pressure with Paris Agreement goals, Climate Action 100+ addresses the reality that limiting global temperature rise requires the companies most responsible for emissions to transform their operations, with investors using their leverage to drive this transformation. The initiative shows that securing sustainable returns for beneficiaries is inseparable from mitigating systemic climate risks, making climate action not a matter of ethics alone but essential fiduciary responsibility for protecting long-term asset value.
