Decarbonizing Corporate America

Companies signed up to science-based targets by G7 equity market

^{*SBTi = Science Based Targets initiative}

^{Sources: SBTi Progress Report 2022 (August 2023), DWS Investment GmbH as of 9/11/23}

Our latest research reveals why the creation of Climate Action equity benchmarks by various index providers may help to incentivize corporates in their decarbonization pathways as these often incorporate SBTs as a variable in portfolio construction.^[1] Time may well show that failing to make such commitments risks eliminating companies from certain investment universes. We therefore see New York Climate Week as an opportunity to show corporates why science-based targets are so important and why investors should consider Climate Action benchmarks as an attractive investment vehicle, particularly for those investors in the Americas and Asia who may not be guided by European climate benchmark regulation.^[2]