New Exponential Business Playbook version 4.1 launched
27 Jan 2025

The Exponential Roadmap Initiative launched the Exponential Business Playbook, during the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos last week. Formerly known as the 1.5°C Business Playbook, the updated name reflects our mission and how we envision the global transition unfolding.

The Exponential Business Playbook is for CEOs, board members, business leaders and employees who want to align with the 1.5°C ambition through concrete action. Focusing on simplicity and speed, the playbook provides a strategic framework for setting climate targets, strategies, transition plans, taking action and disclosing results.

Originally launched in 2020, the first version of the playbook was developed in collaboration with experts from numerous contributing and supporting organizations. Since then, it has been regularly updated to reflect the latest scientific research, evolving standards, and feedback from users.

The latest version, 4.1, arrives at a critical moment. As we face the urgent need for the fastest transition in history, the playbook is designed to facilitate meaningful action for businesses while also emphasising the immense opportunities of joining the race to the top in the global transition.

 

Key updates in version 4.1:

 

  • Net Zero Value Chains: Expanded recommendations for driving decarbonization across entire value chains.
  • Carbon Removals: New guidance on integrating carbon removal solutions into climate strategies.
  • Enhanced KPIs: Updated key performance indicators to track progress effectively.
  • Climate Solutions Section: Refreshed content to highlight actionable climate solutions.
  • Additional Resources: A curated list of online resources to support businesses in implementing the playbook’s action points.

With this new version, the Exponential Roadmap Initiative reinforces its commitment to empowering businesses to accelerate their climate actions while contributing to the global mission of halving emissions by 2030 and staying on track for the 1.5°C goal.

 

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See what some key voices have said about the Exponential Business Playbook:

The science makes clear that we need a fundamental reshaping of business and finance. Every board and every company must show a credible strategy to align with 1.5°C. This Playbook is an excellent guide for the necessary journey to net zero emissions, to prepare business for the fastest economic transition in history and help them drive it. It’s a guide for preserving a more liveable planet for future generations.

Christiana Figueres
Convenor, Mission 2020

This Playbook is great at converting the 1.5°C ambition into concrete climate action that companies of any size can implement. The strategic framework it provides has been very useful in guiding our decision-making and transition towards net zero.

Hannah Hislop
Global Sustainability Senior Manager Unilever

The Business Playbook provides a great framework aligned with the Race to Zero campaign, available today for companies to use. Focusing on simplicity and speed, it will help companies to halve emissions by 2030 towards net-zero well before 2050.

Nigel Topping
UK High Level Climate
Action Champion for COP26

We applaud that this Playbook not only recognised the need for
climate solutions in the transition to a net zero World, but now sets a clear framework to identify climate solution products, services and companies, pushing companies to strive for the solutions truly needed.

Caroline Reid
Sustainability Director Oatly

This Playbook is aligned with the target to limit global warming to just 1.5°C. The only pathway left is massive emissions reductions across all business sectors in the next decade. We show that this is achievable.

Johan Rockström
Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Executive Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre

The Business Playbook is a framework for company strategy and action, that we use, to help our supply chain business partners to set 1.5°C aligned targets. We need all companies to be bold and join this journey towards a more sustainable and connected world.

Börje Ekholm
CEO, Ericsson

Businesses must align with the 1.5°C pathway if we want to address the climate emergency. The Business Playbook provides an action plan for businesses of all sizes to develop and urgently implement ambitious climate strategies.

María Mendiluce
CEO, We Mean Business coalition

Humanity is taking grave risks with the stability of the Earth’s life support system as global average surface temperatures continues to rise. We now need the fastest economic transition in history.

Owen Gaffney
Co-founder Exponential Roadmap Initiative and Co-lead author Exponential Roadmap

We designed the Exponential Business Playbook to make it easy for businesses to set sharp targets and meet them through clear action. In fact, many companies can halve their emissions much faster than every decade.

Johan Falk
CEO and Co-Founder of Exponential Roadmap Initiative 

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