We hold companies, financiers, and policy makers accountable for their responsibility to achieve the emission reduction targets.
Our mission is to push key sectors of heavy industry to move from fossil-dependent production to low-carbon technologies. We will need basic industrial materials in the future too to build the systems that sustain our societies. Simultaneously, global emissions must be halted and directed towards the first stage of climate targets, net zero.
The industrial transition will play an essential role in achieving emission reductions. Steel and concrete are highly emission-intensive materials and their global emissions are growing. If we continue business as usual, we risk overstepping the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement and our planetary boundaries irreversibly.
Demand can be shifted away from emissions-intensive materials and create pressure for investment in low-emission technologies by lead-market generation. Businesses, financial institutions and policy makers have the leverage to generate a lead-market for low-emission steel and concrete.
- We assess the sustainability of the supply chains of steel-procuring companies, attend annual general meetings and demand action to achieve net-zero targets in supply chains.
- We investigate Nordic financial institutions’ exposure ro fossil-based steel producers and metallurgical coal, attend annual general meetings and demand capital flows to be directed towards zero- and low-emission technologies.
- We lobby municipal-level policy makers and follow legislation at national and EU levels.
We are an independent, agile, globally networked advocacy organisation established by climate activists.
We create impact on two tracks – by providing information to businesses, financial institutions and policy makers, and by being alert to expose their climate-risking practices if our message is not taken seriously. Our agenda is shaped by planetary facts; the corporate world or political parties, for example, never dictate our goals.
We are informed by a critical view towards current systems. It is not possible to effectively combat the climate crisis and simultaneously foster the illusion of endless growth. We need to move away from an economy based on the endless exploitation of natural resources towards a market that transforms our society in a sustainable way. We know that this is not only possible, but also profitable for the actors in our key sectors – and we will tell them how.