Halving global emissions by 2030
Nestlé, Telefónica and Ragn-Sells join the 1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders
Global corporations Nestlé, Telefónica and Ragn-Sells announce today - on the 5thanniversary of the Paris Agreement - that they have joined forces with Ericsson, IKEA,Telia, BT Group and Unilever, in the ‘1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders’ group, committing toreducing their...
Launched: SME Climate Hub – Action tools for small and medium-sized businesses
The SME Climate Hub has joined forces with Oxford University to provide SMEs with tools and resources to help them take climate action. Ahead of the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement signing, the freely available tools and resources are specially...
Questions and answers about DIs climate index
Read the article to find answers to common questions about Dagens Industris sustainability index. (Swedish)
Nestlé accelerates climate action with suppliers through the Exponential Roadmap Initiative
Nestlé has today joined the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, a coalition of organizations acting in line with the UN 1.5°C ambition on climate change. Members include technology innovators, scientists, companies and NGOs, all working to accelerate climate action. The...
Roundtable on Governance for Climate Action
Join us on December 11th (07.00 CET). The roundtable focuses on on the governance gap we face and will explore possibilities for the scaling of climate action towards COP26 and beyond, and features Ban Ki-Moon, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Johan Falk and many more.
Accenture Sweden joins the Exponential Roadmap Initiative as partners of the1.5°C Business Playbook
Accenture in Sweden join the Exponential Roadmap Initiative as partners of the 1.5°C Business Playbook. The decision is a part of Accentures new commitments to sustainability — including goals for net-zero emissions by 2025. (Swedish)
The SME Climate Hub & Oxford University join forces to provide SMEs with climate action tools and resources
The SME Climate Hub partners have now joined forces with Oxford University’s Net Zero Climate Research and Engagement Team to provide small and medium-sized businesses with a database of practical tools and resources to curb emissions and build business...
1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders: Why are small businesses key to success on climate?
It is vital that small and medium-sized companies in large corporate supply chains decarbonise, and that they are supported and incentivised to do so. Smaller companies do not have the luxury of sustainability teams to take them on this journey, so ensuring they get...
Update to the 1.5°C Business Playbook on exponential climate action
The 1.5°C Business Playbook guides companies and organisations of all sizes to exponential climate action and helps them align with the 1.5°C ambition. It is a concrete tool to facilitate the first step of halving emissions, and focuses on simplicity and speed.
Key climate impact projects launched
New initiative aims to help SMEs halve emissions before 2030
The SME Climate Hub — co-hosted by the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the We Mean Business coalition and the United Nations Race to Zero campaign — was launched at the 2020-edition of New York Climate Week.
Partnership with Race To Zero & second version of 1.5°C Business Playbook announced
Exponential Roadmap Initiative amplifies its impact by becoming an official partner of the Race To Zero campaign and TED Countdown, while announcing second version of 1.5°C Business Playbook.
SME Climate Hub launched
New initiative will help small and medium-sized businesses to curb carbon emissions to increase competitiveness
Ericsson partners to drive a net-zero supply chain
Ericsson has joined the 1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders initiative, a group of major multinational corporations who have committed to supporting supply chain partners to curb emissions, build business resilience and gain a competitive advantage in the transitioning...
1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders Announced
The Exponential Roadmap Initiative has today launched the “1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders”, a group of major multinational corporations, including Ericsson, IKEA, Telia, BT Group, and Unilever, that have joined forces to drive climate action across their supply chains
SME Climate Hub: Top corporates to consider climate performance when selecting suppliers
BT Group, Ikea, and Unilever among a host of big brands backing plans to help smaller businesses set net-zero goals, as 1.5C Supply Chain Leaders group commits to making climate targets a key factor in purchasing criteria
4 ways for companies to take effective climate action
There is a clear shift in the demands of customers, employees, governments, investors and more. They expect companies to be climate leaders and with good reason. Companies that don’t consider climate risks and act to mitigate them will find it difficult to adapt and...
SME Climate Hub: Top corporates to consider climate performance when selecting suppliers
BT Group, Ikea, and Unilever among a host of big brands backing plans to help smaller businesses set net-zero goals, as the 1.5C Supply Chain Leaders group commits to making climate targets a key factor in purchasing criteria.
Big Businesses to halve Emissions before 2030 to Win the UN’s Race to Zero
“We don’t need the ever-increasing number of pledges and petitions, we need companies to set clear targets, start exponential action and communicate progress. “, says Mats Pellbäck Scharp, Head of Sustainability, Ericsson in the support for the initiative.
Unilever & BT Group endorse new 1.5°C Business Playbook
Guiding companies and organisations in the Race to Zero
Maximize value through sustainability – what is required to reach the 1,5-degree goal?
A session från Nordic Buildtech Day 2020: How do we create a modern and sustainable society? Who is prepared to take the lead? How will the initiatives be financed? (Swedish)
Why we need to declare climate emergency now
There is sufficient evidence to draw the most fundamental of conclusions: now is the time to declare a state of planetary emergency. The point is not to admit defeat, but to match the risk with the necessary action to protect the global commons for our own future.
Orchestras, climate action and the Moonrise Kingdom
Dive into a creative reflection on stakeholder collaboration for supply chain climate action and the global alignment around the 1.5°C ambition. When it comes to climate action, find out why collaboration is the key to success through the lens of Wes Anderson’s...
The 1.5°C Business Playbook: your company’s roadmap for exponential climate action
Contributors and partners We Don't Have Time: "Is the 1.5-degree target just childsplay? Or does it make good business sense? It seems like the latter, and with this guide there is a way for businesses and organisations to lead us into a future for all."
SME Exponential Race To Zero
Exponential Roadmap Initiative announce partnership with ICC & UNFCCC
Get ahead of the curve or lose: the exponential big idea
Houdini endorses 1.5°C Business Playbook
Outdoor sportswear brand Houdini joins as supporting partner of the 1.5°C Business Playbook.
Alfa Laval endorses 1.5°C Business Playbook
Alfa Laval, a world leader within the key technology areas of heat transfer, separation and fluid handling, joins as supporting partner of the 1.5°C Business Playbook. (Swedish)
10 new strong partners step up exponential climate action with The 1.5°C Business Playbook
Keynote presentations at Earth Day Week
Time to sharpen climate targets
Webinar hosted by Fossil Free Sweden, highlighting The 1.5 °C Business Playbook, focusing on obstacles and opportunities with setting climate targets. (Swedish)
Johan Rockström Interview
GAME ON: THE 1.5°C BUSINESS PLAYBOOK
The 1.5°C Business Playbook is a spin-off from the world-leading Exponential Roadmap initiative. It guides companies and organisations of all sizes to exponential climate strategy and action, and helps them align with the 1.5°C ambition.
Ramboll new supporting partner of The 1.5°C Business Playbook
World’s Largest Online Climate Conference Announced to Mark 50th Anniversary of World’s First Earth Day
Report: 4 out of 5 companies lacking climate targets aligned with 1.5˚C ambition
The Haga Initiative has examined which of the stock exchange’s large companies (100 companies) have set up targets to halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 in accordance with the 1.5 ˚C target. (Swedish)
New 1.5°C Business Playbook will help businesses align with the ambition to limit global warming to 1.5°C
A newspaper urges companies to protect the climate – and they are grateful for it (German)
In order to achieve the 1.5°C ambition, the playbook says that greenhouse gas emissions must stop growing by 2020 and halve every decade in future to approach net-zero by 2050.
The 1.5°C Business Playbook: your company’s roadmap for exponential climate action
Is the 1.5-degree target child’s play or does it make good business sense? It seems like the latter, and with this guide, there is a way for businesses and organizations to lead us into a future for all.
Davos 2020: ICC mobilises business leaders to advance a more sustainable global economy
Mr. Denton. “ICC is proud to support the 1.5°C Business Playbook to provide companies of all sizes with a tool for actionable and ambitious climate policies that will accelerate the adoption of net-zero emissions targets across the private sector.”
New 1.5°C Business Playbook Will Help Businesses Take Exponential Climate Action
This Playbook is an excellent guide for the necessary journey to net-zero emissions, to prepare the business for the fastest economic transition in history and help them drive it.
1.5°C Business Playbook launched at World Economic Forum
The playbook says that while meeting the target will require the fastest economic and societal transition in history – it is achievable.
Launching Playbook for climate action
The ultimate aim is to make sure that the corporate sector strongly contributes to limiting global warming to max 1.5-degree. The 2020s must be a decade of massive action.
New 1.5°C Business Playbook will help businesses take exponential climate action
“We designed the 1.5°C 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.
New 1.5°C Business Playbook will help businesses take exponential climate action.
Heavyweight behind new climate guide for companies (Swedish)
“The only way that remains is a massive reduction in emissions across all industries in the coming decade. We show that it is achievable, ” says Johan Rockström in a comment.
Finally, There’s a Roadmap to Tackle the Climate Crisis
Why you need to read the 2019 Exponential Roadmap on Climate Action
Pernilla Bergmark | Ericsson
Exponential Roadmap 2019: It’s possible to halve emissions by 2030.
During the Climate Summit in New York, the 2019 Exponential Roadmap was presented to the world. The report contains 36 solutions to reach the 1.5-degree ambition. (Swedish)
Roadmap spells it out: here’s what’s needed to reach climate goals
An international group of experts, including Telia Company, have published a report that provides 36 solutions for cutting greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by 50 percent in the next ten years.
Green Data: The Next Step to Zero-Emissions Data Centers
If the IT industry can halve its carbon emissions in each of the next three decades, it can help the planet reach net zero by 2050
A Roadmap to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions 50 Percent by 2030
IKEA supports the Exponential Roadmap and the 1.5° C degree pledge
IKEA supports the ambition of the Exponential Roadmap to halve greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in absolute terms by 2030 and has signed the ‘Business Ambition for 1.5°C‘ - launched by several UN bodies, ‘We Mean Business‘ and others.
How ICT can enable exponential climate action
For Ericsson, sustainability is a serious issue, not a token gesture.
Scientists set out how to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
Strong civil society movements are needed to ramp up the pace of change, says study.
Solutions that could rapidly cut greenhouse gas emissions
What Big Tech has to learn from the Green New Deal
The Exponential Climate Action Roadmap pinpoints the next stages in the journey of climate action.
Good Tech Lab: The Frontiers of Impact Tech
A new report highlighting Exponential Roadmap Initiative
Presentation at Clean Energy Summit
A new report highlighting Exponential Roadmap Initiative
re:publica 2019 – Johan Rockström
Cleantech Forum Europe
We Don’t Have Time Conference
Johan Falk | Exponential Roadmap
Sweden can, should and will benefit from being a first-mover (Swedish)
Our country is full of companies which are ready to deliver solutions in a world that takes the climate issue seriously.
Come On! Report
Highlighting Exponential Roadmap Initiative
Natural Intelligence Worldwide – Featured Interview with Johan Rockström
It’s down to cities to limit global warming to 1.5°C by 2030
Jennifer Lenhart | Global lead, WWF Cities The science on climate change, and the scale of action needed to address it, are crystal-clear. People are rising in cities around the globe in direct consequence. We urge local leaders to respond to their...
12 ways the tech sector can help save the climate in 12 years
Webinar: Mapping the road to Exponential Climate Action
The Exponential Climate Action Roadmap pinpoints the next stages in the journey of climate action.
Digital technology can cut global emissions by 15%. Here’s how
The time for action is now. The Earth is facing an imminent risk of crossing tipping points in Earth’s life support systems. When that happens, self-reinforcing cycles will kick in that could potentially lead to a ‘hothouse Earth’ state.
Can ‘carbon law’ help businesses save the climate?
DW: You may never have heard of carbon law — it has nothing to do with the legal system. But the obscure principle seems to be gaining momentum as businesses try to take the lead in a low-carbon economy.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution can lead us to a zero-carbon future – if we act now
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: The Global Carbon Law framing is a useful way to look at the Paris Agreement. It turns a distant goal of reaching carbon neutrality sometime beyond 2050 into a short-term target for the next decade.
How to reduce global warming: A roadmap
THE ECONOMIST: Greenhouse-gas emissions from human sources need to fall to net zero by 2050 to avoid catastrophic climate change. Can the combination of initiatives such as the Carbon Law, Project Drawdown and 100% Renewables and Electrification provide a viable...
Could the law driving computing leaps speed up climate protection?
DW: A new report says the UN's incremental approach to reducing emissions is all wrong. The effort needs to come on strong early - and lessons can be learned from the evolution of computing.
Why the World Economy Has to Be Carbon Free by 2050
THE NEW YORK TIMES: A “carbon law” states simply that the world must halve emissions every decade to stand a chance of reaching a stable climate system for the planet.
‘Moore’s Law’ for carbon would defeat global warming
THE GUARDIAN: A plan to halve carbon emissions every decade, while green energy continues to double every five years, provides a simple but rigorous roadmap to tackle climate change, scientists say.
Curbing emissions with the new “Carbon Law”
STOCKHOLM RESILIENCE CENTRE: An international team of researchers led by Stockholm Resilience Centre director Johan Rockström propose a solution for the global economy to rapidly reduce carbon emissions.
