ACT Assessing Low-Carbon Transition
General
Name of initiative | ACT - Assessing Low-Carbon Transition |
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LPAA initiative | No |
NAZCA Initiative | Yes |
Website address | https://actinitiative.org |
Related initiatives | |
Starting year | 2015 |
End year | |
Secretariat | Contacts:
All enquiry: info@actinitiative.org ADEME coordinator: Romain Poivet, e-mail: romain.poivet@ademe.fr, phone: +33 (0)2 41 20 74 04 CDP coordinator: Esther Stoakes, e-mail: esther.stoakes@cdp.net |
Organisational structure | The ACT Board oversee the Secretariat who coordinate the implementation of the initiative at global and local level. The implementation is lead by Technical Working Groups. |
Geographical coverage | Global |
Name of lead organisation | ACT |
Type of lead organisation | Other intergovernmental organization |
Location/Nationality of lead organisation | EU |
Description
Description | Five guiding questions lead to assess company’s alignment with the low-carbon transition to 2050:
1- What is the company planning to do? 2- How is the company planning to get there? 3- What is the company doing at present? 4- What has the company done in the recent past? 5- How do all of these plans and actions fit together? The resulting ACT rating including a performance score, narrative score and trend score, is key to understanding how ready a business is to transition to a low-carbon world. |
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Objectives | Drive companies' climate actions by providing sectoral methodologies as an accountability framework to assess their low-carbon strategies against relevant decarbonisation pathways. |
Activities | - developing and implementing methodologies covering all high emitter’s sectors as identified by TCFD (non-financial sectors) and key sectors for transion towards a low carbon economy by 2022.
-engage with the initiative key stakeholders (private sector, financial institutions, public authorities and policy makers, NGOs, other climate adaption and mitigation initiatives, academics) by opening the initiative governance, raising awareness and building capacity. - ACT DDP Project builds a methodology to evaluate and monitor companies' decarbonization strategies from a sectoral, national and bottom-up perspective to increase the collective ambition of reducing greenhouse gas in Mexico and Brazil aligned with the global objective of the Paris agreement https://www.iddri.org/en/project/act-ddp-project |
One or two success stories achieved | Developed, tested and implemented methodologies for Automobile manufacturing, Electric Utilities, Retail and the Building sector (Construction, Property Development and Real Estate).
Use case for auto and electric utility: https://climate.worldbenchmarkingalliance.org/ |
Monitoring and Impacts
Function of initiative | Implementation, Funding |
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Activity of initiative | Technical operational implementation (ex-post), Fundraising |
Indicators | |
Goals | Use of ACT ratings globally by companies, policy makers and financial institutions to track climate actions progress towards low-carbon world. |
Comments on indicators and goals | Ratings:
a) Performance score from 1 (lowest) to 20 (highest) Indicators: targets, material investment, intangible investment, performance of products, management, suppliers, clients, policy engagement, business model b) Narrative score from E (lowest) to A (highest) Indicators: business model & strategy, consistency & credibility, reputation, risk c) Trend score as either "+" for improving, "-" for worsening, and "=" for stable Indicators: future change in emissions; business model & strategy; any other information compiled as part of score research The highest possible score is therefore: 20,A,+ |
How will goals be achieved | Setting up an independent and sustainable initiative, globally coordinated with local implementation groups. |
Have you changed or strenghtened your goals | N/A |
Progress towards the goals | |
How are you tracking progress of your initiative | Tracked by ACT Secretariat: number of companies assessed; ACT ratings increase. |
Available reporting | You can find overall descriptions and all the sector methodologies on |
Participants
Participants | Number | Names | ||||||||||||||
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Members | 98 | |||||||||||||||
Companies | 72 | Renault,General Motors Company,Toyota Motor Corporation,PSA,Honda,UNIPER,SSE,ENDESA,AGL,NRG,ENEL,ENGIE,EDF,CASINO,JFRONT,DECATHLON,Wharehouse,Walmart,Carrefour,Woolworth,Kesko,Brio'Gel,Eckes Granini France,Fleury Michon,Sill,Albioma,Compagnie Nationale du Rhône,Enercoop,Cap Vert Energie,Ian motion,ABRAPA,Acquistapace,Ad Hoc Architecture,Neotoa,Breger,CAT 29,Groupe Guisnel,Transport Main forte,Transports Derval,Transports Landry,BERT,Bébé au Naturel,Coq en pâte,Legallais,Lyreco France,Maisons du Monde,Samse,Tape à l'œil,Toupargel,Thermador Groupe,Nexity,Vilogia,Vinci immobilier,Groupe Réalités,Bouygues Construction,ICADE,Groupe PSA,BMW AG,Daimler AG,Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV,Ford Motor Company,General Motors Company,Tesla Motors,Inc.,BAIC Motor Corporation Ltd,Chongqing Changan Automobile Company Limited,Dongfeng Motor Group,FAW Car Company,Limited-A,Geely Automobile Holdings,Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. Ltd,Saic Motor Corporation,Hyundai Motor Co,Volkswagen AG,Tata Motors,Honda Motor Company,Mazda Motor Corporation,Mitsubishi Motors Corporation,Nissan Motor Co. Ltd,Subaru Corporation,Suzuki Motor Corporation | ||||||||||||||
Business organisations | 5 | |||||||||||||||
Research and educational organisations | 4 | |||||||||||||||
Non-governmental organisations | 6 | |||||||||||||||
National states | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Governmental actors | 1 | French Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition | ||||||||||||||
Regional / state / county actors | 0 | |||||||||||||||
City / municipal actors | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Intergovernmental organisations | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Financial Institutions | 10 | |||||||||||||||
Faith based organisations | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Other members | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Supporting partners | 6 | ClimateCHECK, European Investment Bank (EIB), 2 Degree Investing Initiative, Climate-KIC, Fonds Francais pour l'Environnement Mondial (FEEM), EU-life. | ||||||||||||||
Number of members in the years |
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Have only national states as participators | No |
Theme
Transport | Agriculture | Forestry | Business | Financial institutions | Buildings | Industry | Waste | Cities and subnational governments | Short Term Pollutants | International maritime transport | Energy Supply | Fluorinated gases | Energy efficiency | Renewable energy | Supply chain emission reductions | Adaptation | Other | Resilience | Innovation | Energy Access and Efficiency | Private Finance |
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Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Not only have national states as participators