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04 Jun 2020 Corporate commitments to 1.5°C and net zero ramp up on World Environment Day This World Environment Day it is encouraging to see so many companies stepping up and raising their ambition for a 1.5°C future. Our only future. We hope other companies will be inspired by their leadership and we urge many more to join them, and fast.

28 May 2020 Calling All Technical Experts! We’re Refreshing the Technical Advisory Group As the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) nears our five-year anniversary, we are refreshing the composition of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG), a group of experts in the field of corporate sustainability that serve as our voluntary technical advisors. With this refresh, we are aiming for more balance across gender, geography and sectoral coverage...

20 Apr 2020 Smoothing the way for small and medium-sized businesses to set science-based climate targets A new, streamlined route will enable SMEs to grasp the benefits that climate action offers for their business.

09 Mar 2020 How Can Financial Institutions Deliver on the Paris Agreement? This is a critical year for climate action. Five years after the landmark Paris Agreement, world governments will convene in Glasgow this November to put more ambitious national climate action plans on the table. The latest science tells us that emissions must peak this year and then start dropping quickly to stand a good chance of keeping warming to within 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) above pre-industrial levels to avoid the most severe impacts of a changing climate...

15 Oct 2019 A race to the top When the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) started back in 2015, in the run-up to the landmark Paris climate change conference, it had a simple aim: to help companies set targets to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions according to what science said was needed to avert dangerous climate change...

31 Jul 2019 1.5°C vs. 2°C – a world of difference We are standing at the edge of a historic precipice. Our actions in the coming years will dictate our planet’s course for centuries to come...