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We are in the decisive decade. Now is the time to accelerate climate action to halve emissions by 2030.

All countries and all businesses can seize the opportunity and go all in for 2030. Together we can create an inclusive net-zero economy in line with the 1.5°C pathway.

We Mean Business Coalition, together with our extended network of partners, catalyze business and policy action to halve emissions by 2030 and accelerate an inclusive transition to a net-zero economy.

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By working together, companies and governments can accelerate climate action, unlocking business leadership and policy ambition.

Growing climate action from businesses is giving governments greater confidence, spurring them to enact stronger policies to help all businesses achieve their climate goals faster.

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Policy makers are responding to growing ambition and action from companies by setting bold climate policies to help cut emissions in line with 1.5°C and spurring companies to greater action.

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Over 650 companies are aligning their emission reduction targets with the 1.5°C trajectory, through Business Ambition for 1.5°C.

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Analysis of 338 companies with science-based targets shows they have reduced their combined emissions by 25% since 2015.

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Over 400 businesses and investors with a footprint in the US helped to deliver an increased US NDC, calling on the Biden administration to cut emissions by at least 50%.

Learn more about how we are driving progress towards our core goals.

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Latest from the Coalition

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Blog Business eyes are on governments for signals on climate action

Following the ‘code red for humanity’ warning from the latest IPCC report, hundreds of businesses are looking for increased climate policy ambition at the UN General Assembly, at the G20 and at COP26.

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Campaign We’re all in for 2030. Are you?

Hundreds of major businesses are going all in to halve emissions and keep global warming below 1.5°C. It’s vital that even more join them, so we are calling on policy makers, global leaders and companies from every sector, to step up and face the challenge ahead. We’re all in for 2030. Are you?
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Report The consequences of physical climate risk for banks

New Ceres report offers detailed recommendations to guide the banking industry in fully measuring, analyzing, and acting against threats posed by the physical risks of climate change.
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Initiative Net zero’s big challenge for small business

Net zero goals pose a different set of challenges for small businesses. GreenBiz shares how the SME Climate Hub acts as a leading resource for SMEs to take action now.

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Initiative Driving the shift to zero emission public fleets

Climate Group's ZEV Pledge for public fleets initiative asks governments at all levels to pledge to convert their entire owned or leased fleets, where feasible, to zero emission vehicles.
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Initiative Accelerating the shift to zero-carbon freight

Smart Freight Centre, BSR and the World Economic Forum have launched the Sustainable Freight Buyers Alliance, which will work to decarbonize freight transport by 2050.
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Blog 4 vital steps to demonstrate ambition and action this Climate Week

Last month’s IPCC report sent a chill down the collective spine of the sustainability community. Although the window to fend off the worst outcomes of the climate crisis is closing fast, there are reasons to remain optimistic. As difficult as the path ahead will be, we can still limit warming to no more than 1.5°C ...
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Report Getting Real: A blueprint for a commercially smart climate transition

Getting Real provides a blueprint for a commercially smart climate transition, distilling the vast collective insight of the world’s most experienced corporate climate action practitioners to demonstrate how ambitious climate commitments can be turned into tangible outcomes.

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Blog The climate crisis must be priority for financial regulators

Central banks around the world are responsible for ensuring economic and financial stability. So why would some of them minimize perhaps the most significant threat to the future of our society and its financial markets – climate change?
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Blog Moving to business action for a “Nature-positive” world

For the first time ever, a CEO Summit opened the Congress on 3 September 2021. More than 15 CEOs and executives from diverse sectors – including WBCSD members EDF, ENGIE, Kering, Nestlé, Shell, TotalEnergies and Veolia, were present, sharing specific examples of nature-based solutions, and demonstrating business leadership towards a nature-positive economy.
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Blog Only Transformative Net-Zero Implementation Will Meet Our Climate Crisis

The world’s leading authority on climate science, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, had not delivered a major report in 7 years. But the installment released last month paints a dire picture of our future.

The transition to a net-zero economy is accelerating - find out the latest signals of change from the past week.

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The Coalition is a group of seven nonprofit organizations: BSR, CDP, Ceres, CLG Europe, Climate Group, The B Team and WBCSD. Together we catalyze business leadership and drive policy ambition to accelerate the transition to a net-zero economy.

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We Mean Business coalition is generously supported by a growing number of leading philanthropic organisations and other funders.

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