SBTi Trend Tracker 2025
In January 2026, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) surpassed 10,000 companies with validated science-based targets. Drawing on our latest annual dataset (January 2025 to December 2025), the SBTi Trend Tracker 2025 summarizes the adoption of science-based targets and commitments across regions and sectors —offering insights into how businesses worldwide are aligning with climate science and accelerating the net-zero transition.
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We are now more than halfway through the ‘decisive decade’ for climate action—and the case for climate action is no longer hypothetical.
Climate-related extreme events such as heatwaves, droughts, floods and storms are increasing in severity and frequency. Climate change threatens businesses’ core functions and value drivers—from operational efficiency to supply chain stability and long-term financial performance. Setting science-based targets, however, offers companies long-term competitive advantages, increasing investor and stakeholder confidence and improved resilience against regulatory changes as companies chart the course of their transition.
Corporate science-based target-setting is stronger than ever in scale; sustained across regions and sectors. Companies worldwide are positioning themselves for transformation that strengthens resilience, stability, and long-term competitiveness:
- Company coverage continues to scale: By the end of 2025, 9,764 companies had validated science-based targets. The total number of companies with validated near-term targets increased 40% in 2025 compared to the previous year (6,954 to 9,764), while the total number of companies with validated net-zero targets rose by 61% (1,441 to 2,325). The sustained momentum in target-setting underscores how central climate goals have become to corporate strategy worldwide.
- Asia is a major driver of growth: China, Taiwan, Province of China (hereafter referred to as Taiwan), Japan and India led on proportional growth of companies setting science-based targets among high penetration markets1. Indonesia, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand and the Republic of Korea (hereafter referred to as South Korea) were all in the top 10 low penetration markets2 for proportional growth in the number of companies with validated targets. Rapid growth in this region signals that corporate climate ambition is expanding beyond Europe, with the frontier of climate action increasingly shifting toward Asia and emerging markets.
- Fast growth in key sectors: Health Care, Information Technology, and Materials were the fastest growing sectors, proportionally, for science-based targets in 2025.
Disclaimer: ‘Companies’ include corporates, Financial Institutions and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Data correct as of the end of 2025.