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
being engaged through the initiative across the planet
now have net zero commitments
now have board committee oversight of climate change risks and opportunities
Climate Action 100+ is delivered by five investor networks working with the initiative’s investor signatories
Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest metals and mining corporations and a leading iron ore producer, has made new commitments to enhance disclosure on plans and progress to reduce scope 3 emissions from iron ore processing for steel production. This represents a step forward with potential sector wide implications.
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Read moreClimate Action 100+, the world’s largest investor engagement initiative on climate change, is pleased to announce that Michael Cohen has been named as the next chair of the initiative’s global Steering Committee.
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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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