Initiative: Climate Action 100+

Climate Action 100+ is an investor-led initiative to ensure the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change.

Investor Expectations for Diversified Mining

Guide | Dani Siew, Kate Donnelly, Dr Sam Cornish, Dan Gardiner, Jheel Baldi | 7 September 2023

Investor Expectations for Diversified Mining is a supporting resource to be used in conjunction with the Net Zero Standard for Diversified Mining. The Standard is an adaptable and rigorous framework for institutional investors to ascertain how mining companies are navigating the multi-faceted and complex sector-specific aspects of the global transition

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Net Zero Standard for Diversified Mining

Guide | Climate Action 100+ | 6 September 2023

This standard will help investors to assess how mining companies are navigating this complex transition to net zero.
It incorporates the comprehensive range of considerations specific to this sector, and provides a rigorous framework that is adaptable to the varied value chains, individual aims and strategies of diversified miners.

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Climate Action 100+ Announces Second Phase

8 June 2023

The initiative has evolved its core goals, improved and expanded the ways investors can participate, and enhanced the investor engagement model. The new phase, running until 2030, intends to inspire a global scale-up in active ownership, markedly shifting the focus from corporate climate-related disclosure to the implementation of climate transition plans.

Climate Action 100+ Produces Net Zero Standard for Diversified Mining: Consultation Draft

18 May 2023

Climate Action 100+, the world's largest investor engagement initiative on climate change, has produced a consultation draft of the Net Zero Standard for Diversified Mining.

Climate Action 100+ releases the latest evolution of the Net Zero Company Benchmark

30 March 2023

In consultation with investor signatories, the initiative releases today an updated Benchmark (Benchmark 2.0) to ensure that it continues to effectively support investor engagements with focus companies during this critical decade. The enhancements made intend to embed a stronger focus on emissions reductions, alignment with 1.5°C pathways and the robustness of transition plans. The Benchmark will remain one of the key pillars of the initiative as it embarks upon Phase 2.

Five Years of Climate Action 100+ Progress and Next Phase

1 February 2023

The initiative has played a significant role in moving heavy emitting focus companies towards net zero, but this must accelerate.

Unlocking Investment In The Australian Hydrogen Industry

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Changing Pathways for Australian Gas

Report | Kate Simmonds and Kate Donnelly | April 2022

This report highlights that under 1.5°C Paris-aligned scenarios new gas projects may be economically challenged, and investors may be cautious of capex in the sector. The report represents input from some of Australia’s largest superannuation funds and retail fund managers, who invest on behalf of more than 7.5 million Australians.

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Corporate Climate Transition Plans: A Guide to Investor Expectations

Report | Investor Group on Climate Change | March 2022

This report aims to help companies preparing climate transition plans and investors engaging with these improved plans. By summarising existing guidance it provides a clear set of investor expectations for Australian businesses’ climate plans.
It lays out five important principles for adequate climate transition plans:
  1. Set comprehensive science-based quantitative targets

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