The Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor evaluates the transparency and integrity of companies’ climate pledges with the following objectives: Identify and highlight good practice approaches that can be replicated by others, recognising that companies are experimenting to work out what constructive and credible practices are. Evaluate the transparency and integrity of major companies’ climate leadership claims …
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The Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor evaluates the transparency and integrity of companies’ climate strategies, with the objectives of identifying good practices and highlighting areas for improvement in the corporate climate accountability system. This section presents a selection of key insights from the detailed analysis of the climate strategies of five major automobile companies: Ford, General …
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Corporate climate action is more often than not approached as a branding or marketing exercise, whereas it needs to be about rethinking and redesigning business models. As the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor (CCRM) 2025 reveals, companies need to urgently scale up their awareness of and commitment to transformative change by rolling out a number of …
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With H&M Group at their helm, some of the world’s largest clothing companies are belatedly improving their ill-fitting climate strategies, but none have refashioned their business model along sustainable lines, according to the latest Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor. Shein came bottom of the league due its failure to take any meaningful action.
Some of the world’s best-known tech giants are emitting more while presenting climate targets that cause a system error due to outdated accounting rules and the voracious appetite for energy of artificial intelligence (AI), according to the latest Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor. Fixing this requires a major reboot of their climate strategies.
European consumers need a strong Green Claims Directive to deter false claims, but concerning and unverified reports suggest the proposal is in jeopardy. If policymakers do not reach an ambitious agreement, greenwashing will continue, say environmental groups ECOS, ClientEarth, Carbon Market Watch, and the European Environmental Bureau.
FIFA’s latest grand tournament, the month-long Club World Cup has kicked off in the USA. The expanded 32-team games flex the football industry’s money making power, while spotlighting its disregard for people and planet.
Despite some good initiatives, the climate strategies of top food and agriculture corporations are not cutting the mustard, according to a preview of the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor. Danone ranks highest among the assessed companies, while JBC and PepsiCo are bottom of the class.
Tech giant Amazon now sells carbon credits to its corporate customers. While this offers companies a low-cost way to appear to be taking climate action, it does nothing to cut their real-world emissions.