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Transition plans as a driver for business transformation towards climate solutions: Exponential Roadmap Initiative’s message at COP28
At COP28, Exponential Roadmap Initiative focused its contributions on how transition plans can enable business transformation towards climate solutions – and how climate solutions can be defined.
COP28: Countries agree to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels, business key to showing that a rapid phase out is achievable
Exponential Roadmap Initiative stresses the key role of business in driving the fossil fuel phase out as observers largely agree the deal struck at COP28 marks the beginning of the end of the fossil era.
COP28: The role of companies in triggering financial system transformation
At COP28, business and banking representatives discussed what can drive the transformation of the financial system and what role companies can play.
Defining and qualifying climate solutions: new discussion paper out
A discussion paper by Exponential Roadmap Initiative and Oxford Net Zero presents principles and criteria to define and qualify climate solutions and climate solutions companies.
Nordea bank encourages customers to commit to net zero through the SME Climate Hub
Nordea bank is collaborating with the SME Climate Hub and nudging small and medium-sized corporate customers to commit and report via the Hub, piloting the Net-Zero Commitment Loan in Sweden and Denmark with favourable terms for companies that do so. The SME Climate...
Exponential Roadmap Initiative at COP28
Exponential Roadmap Initiative’s COP28 events focus on bringing together experts in science and business to advance companies’ transition towards delivering climate solutions.
Exponential Roadmap Initiative backs business campaign to phase out fossil fuels
The Exponential Roadmap Initiative backs a campaign launched by the We Mean Business Coalition to mobilise business voices for an agreement to phase out fossil fuels at the upcoming UN climate change conference, COP28.
Informing the development of the UNFCCC’s Net Zero Recognition and Accountability Framework
Exponential Roadmap Initiative submitted views to an independent consultation led by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to identify barriers that slow progress and limit ambitions on the net zero pledges made by companies, cities and regions and financial institutions.
Exponential Roadmap Initiative’s commitment to solving the climate crisis recognised at UN Climate Ambition Summit
Johan Falk, CEO and co-founder of the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, participated in the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Ambition Summit on 20 September, in recognition of his and the initiative’s commitment to solving the climate crisis.
A.I. for clean energy: White Paper launched to accelerate project pipeline development globally
The authors propose to use artificial intelligence tools to support the scale-out of clean energy infrastructure globally and achieve tripling of renewable energies by 2030.
1.5°C Business Playbook version 3.0 launched
Exponential Roadmap Initiative launched an updated version of the 1.5° Business Playbook, building on the established four-pillar-climate strategy.
H2 Green Steel first manufacturing company to join Exponential Roadmap Initiative as Climate Solutions Company
By recognising H2 Green Steel as a Climate Solutions Company, the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, a partner of the UN-backed Race to Zero, validates the Swedish industrial start-up’s plan to deliver significant emissions reductions compared with traditional steel manufacturing.
Energy Edge accelerator program launched by Accenture Sweden, Microsoft Sweden and Exponential Roadmap Initiative
Accelerating and scaling digital and disruptive energy innovations lies at the heart of a new project from Accenture Sweden, Microsoft Sweden and Exponential Roadmap Initiative.
Tele2 joins Exponential Roadmap Initiative
The telecommunications company Tele2 has joined the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, stressing the value of science-based collaboration of companies to halve emissions by 2030.
Greening Cash Action Guide helps companies take action to reduce emissions from their cash deposits
The Greening Cash Action Guide details actions companies can and should take action to measure and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from how banks manage their cash.
AI – and a start-up mindset – can fast-track clean energy projects
A new global platform harnessing AI could quickly identify clean energy projects worth $2 trillion. Owen Gaffney, Johan Falk and Aaron Vaden-Youmans make the case in Context news.
World Environment Day: How Ragn-Sells embraces circularity
On World Environment Day, Exponential Roadmap Initiative member Ragn-Sells joins the global call for solutions to plastic pollution. With a focus on circular practices, Ragn-Sells is dedicated to tackling this environmental challenge and working towards a sustainable future.
Swedish marketing and communication agencies launch initiative to improve climate and sustainability communication
Around 20 Swedish companies, organisations and bureaus launched today an initiative aiming to further accurate and credible marketing and communication on climate and sustainability, with science-based guidance from Exponential Roadmap Initiative.
“We need to start believing in the exponential growth that is happening”
Former COP26 High-Level Climate Action Champion Nigel Topping told sustainability professionals that they need to embrace exponential growth and grasp at new and emerging climate solutions, or risk suffering in their markets, at an event marking edie’s Business Leadership Month.
Comment: On Earth Day, we need to get behind the green technologies with the greatest momentum
The answer to putting our planet on a better track lies in reinforcing feedback loops, argue Exponential Roadmap Initiative Co-founders Owen Gaffney and Johan Falk in a comment for Reuters Events Sustainable Business for Earth Day.
Watch Exponential Solutions Day at Stockholm Climate Week
Ahead of Earth Day, on April 20, Exponential Solutions Day of Stockholm Climate Week brings together leaders in business, policy and science to create momentum for scaling the climate solutions that are here now and affordable and that can transform the way we live, work, and thrive in a sustainable world.
Swedish Space Corporation joins the Exponential Roadmap Initiative
The Exponential Roadmap Initiative (ERI) welcomes the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) as a new member. By joining, SSC will strategically work to halve the company’s own carbon emissions throughout the whole value chain.
LIVE NOW: Stockholm Climate Week’s Food and Agriculture Day
Join Food and Agriculture Day at Stockholm Climate Week! For Earth Day, the week’s events bring together leaders in policy, business, science and civil society to accelerate climate action and scale up the solutions that climate science tells us are here, now, and affordable.
Exponential Roadmap Initiative Co-chair Johan Rockström picked by Time magazine
Johan Rockström, Co-chair of the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, is among the 100 most influential people of 2023, selected by Time magazine.
“Let’s talk climate”: We Don’t Have Time, ERI and GoClimate CEOs call Swedish government to action
In Swedish daily Aftonbladet, the CEOs of We Don’t Have Time, Exponential Roadmap Initiative and GoClimate call on the Swedish government to make true on its offer to talk to business and civil society about what Sweden is doing to achieve its climate plans (in Swedish).
Register for Exponential Solutions Day at Stockholm Climate Week
Register now for Stockholm Climate Week and join us on 20 April for Exponential Solutions Day to discuss the solutions that are available now and affordable to halve emissions by 2030.
Comment: The good news from the IPCC report
The latest climate report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was full of bad news. And yet there was also some good news in it.
Small Business Climate Action: Barriers & Bridges
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of communities and economies around the world. They make up 90% of business globally, employ 70% of the world’s workforce and contribute over 50% of global GDP. However, despite their collective impact, small...
Accelerating net zero action by activating policy
Reaching net zero by 2050 requires emissions to be halved by 2030. Throughout COP27, non-State actors in the Race to Zero – from businesses, cities, regions, financial institutions, education and healthcare institutions – showcased how they are contributing to...
Exponential Solutions at COP27
To successfully halve emissions by 2030 we must exponentially scale climate solutions, shifting out the fossil economy. Transformative and disruptive companies are leading the way, but stronger policy, finance and utilization of digitalisation is required to...