Coalition Partners
The We Mean Business Coalition brings together a group of nonprofit organizations collaborating to accelerate an inclusive transition to a net zero economy. These seven founding partners deliver key initiatives and activities that are central to driving business ambition, action, advocacy and accountability.
BSR® is a sustainable business network and consultancy focused on creating a world in which all people can thrive on a healthy planet. With offices in Asia, Europe, and North America, BSR® provides its 300 + member companies with insight, advice, and collaborative initiatives to help them see a changing world more clearly, create long-term value, and scale impact.
Ceres is a non-profit organization working with the most influential capital market leaders to solve the world’s greatest sustainability challenges. Through our powerful networks and global collaborations of investors, companies and nonprofits, we drive action and inspire equitable market- based and policy solutions throughout the economy to build a just and sustainable future.
CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s environmental disclosure system for companies, cities, states and regions. Founded in 2000 and working with more than 740 financial institutions with over $136 trillion USD in assets, CDP pioneered using capital markets and corporate procurement to motivate companies to disclose their environmental impacts, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests. Founded in 2000 and working with more than 700 financial institutions with over $142 trillion in assets. Over 24,000 organizations around the world disclosed data through CDP in 2023, with more than 23,000 companies – including listed companies worth two thirds global market capitalization - and over 1,100 cities, states and regions. Fully TCFD aligned, CDP holds the largest environmental database in the world, and CDP scores are widely used to drive investment and procurement decisions towards a zero carbon, sustainable and resilient economy.
The Corporate Leaders Groups (CLGs) bring together business leaders committed to supporting the transformation to competitive, sustainable, inclusive economies that will deliver net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Through exchange of evidence-based ideas and influential discussions with policymakers and peers, the CLGs advocate for robust business and policy solutions to the environmental and sustainability challenges facing our planet.
Climate Group drives climate action. Fast. Our goal is a world of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, with greater prosperity for all. We focus on systems with the highest emissions and where our networks have the greatest opportunity to drive change. We do this by building large and influential networks and holding organizations accountable, turning their commitments into action. We share what we achieve together to show more organizations what they could do. We are an international non-profit organization, founded in 2004, with offices in London, Amsterdam, Beijing, New Delhi and New York. We are proud to be part of the We Mean Business Coalition.
The B Team is a global collective of business and civil society leaders catalyzing a better way of doing business. Its agenda ladders up to one overarching goal: to build, by 2030, an inclusive economy that works for all people and communities while safeguarding our natural environment.
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a global community of 230 of the world’s leading businesses, representing a combined revenue of more than USD $8.5 trillion and 19 million employees. Together, we transform the systems we work in to limit the impact of the climate crisis, restore nature and tackle inequality. We accelerate value chain transformation across key sectors and reshape the financial system to reward sustainable leadership and action through a lower cost of capital. Through the exchange of best practices, improving performance, accessing education, forming partnerships, and shaping the policy agenda, we drive progress in businesses and sharpen the accountability of their performance.
Strategic Partners
Our strategic partners are non-profits that work with businesses that share strategic objectives and missions with the Coalition. Strategic partners work closely with us to align the corporate climate ecosystem around shared goals.
Network Partners
The Coalition supports and is supported by a network of organizations that share our vision of halving emissions by 2030.
Funding Partners
The IKEA Foundation (Stichting IKEA Foundation), a founding partner of the We Mean Business Coalition, works to create a better everyday life for the many people. As the philanthropic arm of INGKA Foundation, the owner of the Ingka Group of companies, IKEA Foundation focuses on improving the lives of vulnerable children by enabling their families to create sustainable livelihoods, and to fight and cope with climate change.
Learn more at www.ikeafoundation.org or on www.facebook.com/IKEAfoundation
Amazon Founded in 1994 with the mission to be the Earth’s most customer-centric company, Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. As the co-founder and first signatory of The Climate Pledge – a commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 – Amazon is also committed to building a sustainable business for its customers and the planet. Learn more at sustainability.aboutamazon.com and theclimatepledge.com.
About the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is a nonpartisan, private charitable foundation that advances ideas and supports institutions to promote a better world. For more than 50 years, it has supported efforts to advance education for all, preserve the environment, improve lives and livelihoods in developing countries, promote women’s health and economic well-being, support vibrant performing arts, strengthen Bay Area communities and make the philanthropy sector more effective. On the web at www.hewlett.org.
About the High Tide Foundation: The mission of High Tide Foundation is to have a significant, measurable impact on climate change through the monitoring, mitigation, and regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. They intend for their funding to be catalytic; it must make a genuine contribution to the movement. They partner with a wide variety of actors to make change, including non-profits, foundations, philanthropists, companies, universities, and government.
They intend for our funding to have a genuine impact on the future by working to keep the global temperature rise to a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
About Meta: Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.
About the InterAmerican Development Bank: With a history of results dating to 1959, the InterAmerican Development Bank works to improve the quality of life of millions of people in its 26 borrowing countries. It has 48 member countries. It provides financial and technical support to national and sub-national governments and other entities in the region and conduct cutting-edge research. That is how it drives progress in health, education, infrastructure, climate action and diversity, among other fundamental issues, to reduce poverty and improve lives in its region. Working with its member countries, its goal is sustainable and inclusive development in the region.
About Masdar: Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) is the UAE’s clean energy champion and one of the largest companies of its kind in the world, advancing the development and deployment of renewable energy and green hydrogen technologies to address global sustainability challenges. Established in 2006, Masdar is today active in over 40 countries, helping them to achieve their clean energy objectives and advance sustainable development. Masdar is jointly owned by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala), and Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA), and under this ownership the company is targeting a renewable energy portfolio capacity of at least 100 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 and an annual green hydrogen production capacity of up to 1 million tonnes by the same year. On the web at: https://masdar.ae/