Climate action must accelerate
The world is waking up and change is coming,
whether you like it or not.
Greta Thunberg
Welcome to the second September edition of the We Mean Business coalition newsletter.
The growing scale of business climate ambition and action was evident at Climate Week NYC this year. Over 20 new signatories were added to The Climate Group’s corporate leadership initiatives RE100, EV100 and EP100 – with RE100 passing the 200 members mark. While the number of companies committed to science-based targets reached 667.
Ahead of the event, 87 companies signed the Business Ambition for 1.5°C Pledge – redefining climate leadership by committing to align their businesses’ emissions reduction targets with what scientists say is needed to limit the worst impacts of climate change.
CEOs of many of these companies showed up in person in New York to demonstrate the role business can play in delivering the transition to a zero-carbon economy and call for bold policy ambition.
Collectively, the number of companies committed to one or more of the coalition partners’ initiatives surged passed the 1,000 mark during Climate Week – just as the coalition’s core partners – BSR, CDP, Ceres, The B Team, The Climate Group, The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group and WBCSD – celebrate five years of catalyzing bold climate action with the coalition.
NEWS & BLOGS
From the We Mean Business blog
5 years of the We Mean Business coalition catalyzing climate action
Since its launch at Climate Week NYC in 2014 – by its seven core partners – the We Mean Business coalition has helped to catalyze bold climate action and will continue to accelerate the transition to the zero-carbon economy in the years to come.
Climate Week: Zero-carbon transition must accelerate
The transition to a zero-carbon economy is achievable, will bring significant benefits and has already begun, but the governments of the world must come forward with clear, bold policies needed to further accelerate action.
Business is showing government it’s time to raise ambition
At the close of the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, it’s crucial policy makers take confidence from the growing climate action and ambition in the private sector across the world, writes We Mean Business coalition CEO Nigel Topping.