Tracking progress towards climate goals is essential to ensure collective momentum towards net zero is maintained, and the worst effects of climate change are averted. Governments, businesses and financial institutions around the world are making ambitious climate pledges, but often without detailed plans or pathways to meet the targets that have been set. Greater numbers of investors are expecting to align with the Paris climate goals, but the tools to provide meaningful measurement to assess progress and hold the companies they invest into account remain far from ready for wide scale uptake. 

With accountability, transparency and integrity increasingly the hallmark of what is considered good practice in sustainability, new tools such as sustainability benchmarks, indices and ratings are emerging. In developing such tools, flexibility will be required to ensure they reflect the differing pace of decarbonisation achievable across sectors and economies, and that capital flows to the sectors where decarbonisation efforts will have the greatest impact.

This digital dialogue, held in partnership with Nikkei and Wilshire, will provide a post-COP27 review of how companies and investors are tracking on their individual and collective endeavours to reach net zero. We will explore how tools, metrics and measures are evolving to ensure the momentum towards 1.5 is maintained and strengthened.

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