Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2025

The Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor evaluates the transparency and integrity of  companies’ climate pledges with the following objectives: Identify and highlight good practice approaches that can be replicated by others, recognising that companies are experimenting to work out what constructive and credible practices are. Evaluate the transparency and integrity of major companies’ climate leadership claims …

Automotive manufacturers sector deep dive [Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2025]

The Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor evaluates the transparency and integrity of companies’ climate strategies, with the objectives of identifying good practices and highlighting areas for improvement in the corporate climate accountability system. This section presents a selection of key insights from the detailed analysis of the climate strategies of five major automobile companies: Ford, General …

Race against the climate clock: Can corporations make good on their climate pledges in time?

Corporate climate action is more often than not approached as a branding or marketing exercise, whereas it needs to be about rethinking and redesigning business models. As the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor (CCRM) 2025 reveals, companies need to urgently scale up their awareness of and commitment to transformative change by rolling out a number of …

No corporation gets top marks for its climate strategy – report

Amid soaring emissions, not one of the corporations evaluated in the latest Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor received a clean bill of health for its climate strategy, though some isolated improvements occurred. This highlights the vital importance of governments stepping up to better regulate the climate action of the private sector.

Fashion sector deep dive [Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2025]

This briefing focuses on the fashion sector and features analysis based on detailed case studies of adidas,
H&M Group, Inditex, lululemon and Shein. We find that some fashion companies’ climate strategies show promising signs of improvement. However, limited transparency on implementation plans, reliance on false solutions and a lack of commitment to move beyond fast fashion undermine their credibility.

Fashionably late: Better-fitting climate strategies but fashion sector still needs to roll up its sleeves – report

With H&M Group at their helm, some of the world’s largest clothing companies are belatedly improving their ill-fitting climate strategies, but none have refashioned their business model along sustainable lines, according to the latest Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor. Shein came bottom of the league due its failure to take any meaningful action.

Logic errors: Energy-hungry tech sector veers off sustainable climate path, despite its claims – report

Some of the world’s best-known tech giants are emitting more while presenting  climate targets that cause a system error due to outdated accounting rules and the voracious appetite for energy of artificial intelligence (AI), according to the latest Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor. Fixing this requires a major reboot of their climate strategies.

Cream of a disappointing crop: Danone makes greatest climate progress of slow-moving agrifood corporations – report

Despite some good initiatives, the climate strategies of top food and agriculture corporations are not cutting the mustard, according to a preview of the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor. Danone ranks highest among the assessed companies, while JBC and PepsiCo are bottom of the class.