Climate crisis
A strong economy needs a healthy planet. Ceres works with investors, companies, and policymakers to advance climate solutions and achieve a just and sustainable future where people and the planet prosper.
Our work with investors
Our work with companies
Our policy advocacy
Investors
Investors recognize their fiduciary duty to address systemic climate risks and capture the economic opportunities of the transition to a just and sustainable future. We work with the world’s most influential investors to reduce climate risk and seize investment opportunities for a clean economy. Through the Ceres Investor Network, we work with hundreds of investors advancing responsible investment practices and policies that protect both the planet and their portfolios.
Our investor climate initiatives
As co-founders of several influential global initiatives, we mobilize the largest investors to drive change within their own portfolios and scale up investments aligned with a net zero emissions future.
Climate Action 100+ is an investor-led initiative to ensure the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change.
Ceres Food Emissions 50 is an investor-led initiative engaging 50 of the highest-emitting food companies in North America to improve climate disclosures, set ambitious climate targets, and develop their own climate transition plans in line with the Paris Agreement.
The Investor Agenda is a common leadership agenda on the climate crisis that is unifying, comprehensive, and focused on accelerating investor action for a net-zero emissions economy.
The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative is an international group of asset managers committed to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner.
Paris Aligned Asset Owners are a global group of asset owners that have made individual commitments to transition their investments to achieve net zero portfolio emissions by 2050.
Companies
To succeed in today’s rapidly evolving business environment, companies must tackle global systemic risks that threaten the health and prosperity of the economy and the planet. We engage with companies in key sectors of the economy to ratchet up the ambition of their corporate climate goals, create robust transition action plans, and provide disclosure about how they’re achieving interim targets by 2030.
Ceres Company Network
The Ceres Company Network includes 50 major corporations committed to responsible business leadership by taking action to stabilize the climate, protect water and natural resources, and promote a just and inclusive economy.
Ceres Ambition 2030
The Ceres Ambition 2030 initiative works to decarbonize six of the highest-emitting sectors— banking, electric power, food and agriculture, oil and gas, steel, and transportation. We aim to build a stable, just, and climate-resilient economy by driving greater corporate ambition, action, and accountability on aggressive greenhouse gas emission reductions.
Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance
Led by Ceres, the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance (CEVA) is a collaborative group of companies focused on tackling the climate crisis by accelerating the transition to electric vehicles across all use cases and class sizes.
Create your climate transition plan
Broad climate commitments and long-term goals, even to reach net zero emissions, aren’t enough. The next step for companies is to develop and publicly disclose a concrete plan for achieving emissions reduction targets—with specific, measurable, and time-bound goals.
Policy
Leading investors and companies know they need ambitious policies at all levels of government to meet their own bold climate targets, reduce climate risk, and build a sustainable economy. We mobilize investors and companies—and engage with key lawmakers and regulators—to make the economic case for innovative climate and energy policies at all levels of government.
Financial Regulation
Through the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, we move federal and state regulators to act on climate change as a systemic financial risk and implement systems-level change.
Federal Policy
By making the business case for new economic opportunities to address the climate crisis, we bring a powerful voice to Washington, D.C.
State Policy
We work with investors and companies to advocate for ambitious climate and clean energy policies in states across the U.S.
Our commitment to advocacy
Ceres is a long-time advocate for strong climate and clean energy legislation—and for standardized, mandatory climate disclosure. We rally company and investor support, and engage directly with U.S. policymakers and regulators, to achieve historic victories. Below are a few of our priorities.
National Climate Disclosure Rule
After more than two decades of Ceres and our members calling on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to mandate robust climate reporting, publicly listed companies are now required to disclose their climate impacts and transition plans.
California Climate Disclosure Legislation
Ceres co-sponsored two historic bills, SB 253 and SB 261, which will require thousands of public and private companies to report their climate risks and emissions across their supply chains.
Inflation Reduction Act
The Inflation Reduction Act marked a culmination of more than a decade of advocacy for federal climate legislation by Ceres and the companies we work with.
Advocate with Ceres
The Ceres Policy Network represents some of the most recognizable brands in the U.S. who have become leading advocates for climate and clean energy policy solutions at both the state and federal levels.
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