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 …

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.

Food and agriculture 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 year’s preview focuses on the chapter on the agrifood sector, featuring analysis based on detailed case studies of Danone, JBS, Mars, Nestlé …

Recipe for greenwashing

The report calls for a phased reduction in international credit use within K-ETS, increased focus on domestic emission reductions, and alignment with best practices from systems like the EU ETS. Strengthening the environmental integrity of K-ETS is essential to achieving South Korea’s climate goals and ensuring the global credibility of the country’s climate action by putting in place and implementing robust and effective policies.