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Exponential Roadmap Initiative and World Benchmarking Alliance partner to amplify collective efforts toward halving emissions by 2030

The Exponential Roadmap Initiative (ERI) is proud to announce a new partnership with the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA). This collaboration aims to amplify efforts to support the private sector in scaling climate ambition and action

New Exponential Business Playbook version 4.1 launched

The Exponential Business Playbook launches during World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. Learn more about the key updates and how the new playbook is designed to help businesses align with planetary needs while driving profitability and fostering an exponential race to the top.

Opinion: Why companies need to put profitability at the centre of transition planning

Johan Falk and Annachiara Torciano write in FT Sustainable Views about why companies must prioritize profitability in their transition planning to effectively integrate net-zero targets into the core of their business strategy.

TechArena ZERO 2024: Scale Solutions Exponentially and Buy More Time

Eco-anxiety - this term was first coined in the early 2000s and gained traction a decade later to describe an emotional response to the climate and biodiversity crises. With the COVID-19 pandemic, growing political division, the war in Ukraine, and the genocide in...

Business innovations taking the Exponential Solutions stage at TechArena Zero 2024

Learn about carbon-negative plastics, micro-investments in solar panels, an app to reduce companies’ mobility emissions, and graphene infused ultra-strong materials.

Climate Week NYC: Scaling up carbon removals from today towards net zero

Exponential roadmap Initiative and Rethinking Removals present their joint work on carbon removals to achieve net zero.

Climate Week NYC: Practical examples to reinvent your value chain

Exponential Roadmap Initiative and member companies highlight the importance of a value chain approach in driving the green transition.

Climate Week NYC: Exponential Race to the Top

Exponential Roadmap Initiative and member companies highlight the importance of a value chain approach in driving the green transition.

New tool enables professional services providers to assess client and project portfolios against climate criteria, align with climate ambition

A new robust yet simple matrix developed by Exponential Roadmap Initiative, with key contributors AFRY and Futerra, enables professional services providers to assess how their clients and projects align with climate ambition.

Cities, regions and countries leading the way in the green transformation

In the global fight against climate change, local governments are key to implementing innovative solutions to lower emissions and create sustainable, liveable cities.

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.

Houdini’s commitment to fighting the plastic pollution

With this year’s World Environment Day themed “Solutions to plastic pollution”, we examine the Exponential Roadmap Initiative members putting circularity at the heart of their climate strategies.

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.

Profits up, Carbon down! Amidst rising inflation, U.S. small businesses can cut costs and boost profits by joining climate action hub

The SME Climate Hub today launched a major drive to help leaders of the 30 million small businesses in the United States decarbonize. As small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) face soaring inflation and energy prices, the SME Climate Hub provides free resources to cut costs and increase profits through taking climate action to reduce carbon emissions.

Taking stock of progress

The UN-backed #RacetoZero has doubled since this time last year and grown tenfold since June 2020, with members around the world taking action to slash emissions and build resilience. Today, the two major UN-backed global climate campaigns Race to Zero and Race to Resilience launches a first annual joint progress report to reflect on the progress made. Exponential Roadmap Initiative is highlighted as one unique initiative within the campaign, together with two of our leading members: Google and Ericsson.

Today, Futerra became the first agency officially named a ‘Climate Solutions Provider’ under the UN-backed Race to Zero climate campaign.

Announced by the Race to Zero partner Exponential Roadmap Initiative, Futerra is the first agency named as a ‘Climate Solutions Provider’. Futerra fulfils Exponential Roadmap Initiative criteria of at least 90% of revenue coming from projects aligned with the 1.5°C...

Land sector can – and must – reach net zero emissions by 2030. Where, what and how food is grown is critical

Land sector can - and must - reach net zero emissions by 2030. Where, what and how food is grown is critical

Ørsted joins the 1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders and the Exponential Roadmap Initiative

Ørsted announced today that it has joined forces with a growing group of global corporations that are driving climate action throughout global supply chains in line with science-based emissions reduction targets. The group currently includes Ericsson, IKEA, Telia, BT...

Exponential Roadmap Initiative welcomes Netflix

Exponential Roadmap Initiative welcomes Netflix, joining forces with innovative, transformative and disruptive companies taking exponential climate action aligned with the 1.5°C ambition, in line with latest science. "Our Netflix Sustainability program endeavors to...

Launching AFRY’s 1.5°C Roadmap

AFRY have developed the AFRY 1.5°C Roadmap to support and guide the company towards delivering on climate commitments, and to be transparent about their climate action. Their climate commitments are in support of limiting global warming to 1.5°C and cover how they run...

Advania Sweden steps up its exponential climate action and joins Exponential Roadmap Initiative and Race to Zero

Advania Sweden joins the Exponential Roadmap Initiative and teams up with other innovative, transformative, and disruptive organizations committed to halving emissions before 2030. These initiatives go beyond reducing carbon emissions in the companies' own emissions...

Digitaliseringskonsulterna joins Exponential Roadmap Initiative

Digitaliseringskonsulterna: The business association Digitaliseringskonsulterna brings together consultants with expertise in digitization, innovation, and change management with the aim of achieving rapid and large emission reductions throughout society. The...

Deedster steps up exponential climate action-joins Exponential Roadmap Initiative and Race to Zero

Deedster joins the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, joining forces with innovative, transformative, and disruptive businesses committed to halving emissions before 2030 towards net zero, and who go further than decarbonisation of their own and value chain emissions,...

New collaborative platform to engage with suppliers to halve GHG emissions before 2030

COP26, Glasgow: Today we launch the 1.5°C Supplier Engagement Guide, a collaborative platform to engage with suppliers to halve GHG emissions before 2030, by the 1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders, an initiative hosted by the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, founded together...

Kivra joins Exponential Roadmap Initiative and UN Race to Zero

KIVRA: Kivra accelerates climate action and joins the Exponential Roadmap Initiative and UN Race to Zero. Kivra commits to driving the transition towards radically reduce emissions alongside other disruptive companies such as Google, Polestar and Spotify.

Knowit steps up its sustainability efforts further – partners with the Exponential Roadmap Initiative and joins Race to Zero

KNOWIT: Knowit AB (publ) is taking the next step in its long-term sustainability efforts, becoming a supporting partner to the Exponential Roadmap Initiative. Through the partnership, Knowit will also join the UN’s global climate campaign Race to Zero. The partnership...

Spotify joins Exponential Roadmap Initiative and UN Race To Zero

Spotify announced that they are joining the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, joining forces with other innovative, transformative, and disruptive businesses that will play a key role in accelerating climate solutions and exponential climate action to halve emissions by...

Investor joins Exponential Roadmap Initiative and UN Race to Zero

INVESTOR: We sharpen our climate targets further and join the UNFCCC’s Race to Zero campaign ahead of COP26 through the Exponential Roadmap Initiative. The corporate sector plays a major role in supporting the transition to a sustainable low-carbon economy and...

Working with suppliers to beat the clock on climate change

UNILEVER: To achieve net zero emissions across our value chain by 2039, we’re inviting our suppliers to commit to our new Climate Promise. As a Partner of Exponential Roadmap Initiative, Unilever co-founded the 1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders initiative to support...

Oracle joins Exponential Roadmap Initiative and UN Race to Zero- to drive exponential climate action and solutions

Oracle announced that they are joining the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, with other innovative, transformative and disruptive businesses, that will play a key role in accelerating climate solutions and exponential climate action to halve emissions by 2030. In...

Alfa Laval collaborates with Schneider Electric to analyze and improve the company’s energy performance

CISION: Alfa Laval is extending its global collaboration with Schneider Electric to digitize and analyze data to improve operational efficiency. The two companies will use near real-time energy consumption data across sites, countries and regions to identify and...

The 1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders and Exponential Roadmap Initiative welcome Mastercard

The “1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders” and Exponential Roadmap Initiative welcome Mastercard to the fast growing group of global corporations driving climate action throughout global supply chains in line with science. The initiative already consists of global giants, like...

Scan Global Logistics is joining the Exponential Roadmap Initiative and the 1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders

SCAN GLOBAL LOGISTICS (SGL) is announcing their support of the 1.5°C Business Playbook, joining the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, which brings together transformative and disruptive businesses, committed to halving emissions before 2030 towards net zero, integrating...

Supplier tool for climate action

AXFOUNDATION: Axfoundation together with Exponential Roadmap Initiative and other partners, develops a digital educating tool to inspire and motivate suppliers in different sectors to set climate goals and start acting in line with the Paris agreement (Swedish).

Semcon accelerates its climate action agenda – commits to several initiatives and the 1.5 °C ambition.

SEMCON: Joins the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, the Science Based Targets initiative, the Race to Zero campaign and the UN Global Compact. These initiatives are all aligned with the ambition of the Paris Agreement to limit the global warming to 1.5 °C above...

Plotting a net-zero course: Polestar joins Exponential Roadmap Initiative and UN Race to Zero

POLESTAR: The journey towards more sustainable mobility has forced us to get off the beaten track. Not only was the traffic terrible, but it wasn’t getting us to where we need to go. Now, we’re entering uncharted territory. To help us navigate in a rapidly...

Google and Polestar step up exponential climate action – joins Exponential Roadmap Initiative and UN Race to Zero

On the first year anniversary of the United Nations’ Race to Zero campaign – Google and Polestar announce that they have joined the Exponential Roadmap Initiative and the Race to Zero, the largest ever alliance committed to halving emissions before 2030 towards net zero emissions by no later than 2050.

IKEA launches a new program to accelerate suppliers’ transition to 100% renewable electricity

IKEA: Almost two thirds of the IKEA climate footprint is directly connected to the supply chain, including production at suppliers. Today, IKEA announces a program with the intention of securing 100% renewable electricity at direct suppliers – especially in markets...

1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders welcomes Microsoft

The 1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders welcomes Microsoft to the fast growing group of multinational corporations committed to driving climate action throughout global supply chains in line with latest science.

Tech Mahindra joins the 1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders- Commits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across value chain

TECH MAHINDRA: Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business re-engineering services and solutions, today announced that it has joined forces with growing group of global corporations including Ericsson, IKEA, Telia Company, BT...

Cybercom’s sustainability report 2020, first to apply the 1.5°C Business Playbook pillars

CYBERCOM: Cybercom’s complete Sustainability Report for 2020 has been published on the company’s website cybercom.com/report. The sustainability report is the first of its kind to be produced with support from the Exponential Roadmap initiative to apply its 1.5°C...

Prime Computer joins the Exponential Roadmap Initiative

PRIME COMPUTER: As a manufacturer of hardware for sustainable IT solutions, Prime Computer has joined the Exponential Roadmap Initiative as a partner.

Nestlé, Telefónica and Ragn-Sells join the 1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders

Global corporations Nestlé, Telefónica and Ragn-Sells announce today - on the 5th anniversary 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 to reducing...

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...

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.

Castellum joins Exponential Roadmap Initiative to halve emissions by 2030

Castellum has been selected as a partner in the Exponential Roadmap Initiative and thus supports the 1.5 ° C Business Playbook, a tool that guides companies and organizations to set a strategy in line with the Paris agreement and move to action.

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.

Unilever & BT Group endorse new 1.5°C Business Playbook

STOCKHOLM (18 September 2020) The second version of the 1.5°C Business Playbook (1.1) was released today by theExponential Roadmap Initiative, also announcing their official partnership with the Race to Zero campaign as well as six newpartners endorsing the Playbook.

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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)

AFRY becomes supporting partner to The 1.5°C Business Playbook

AFRY is now partner to the first business playbook for exponential climate action. The initiative was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2020, and aims to help companies and organisations align with the 1.5°C ambition, halving emissions every...