Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2025

The Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2025 calls for an end to 'creative accounting' and the reliance on voluntary frameworks in corporate climate action. It emphasizes that government regulation must become the 'backbone of climate action' to ensure that big tech, fast fashion, automotive, and agrifood companies implement substantiated emission reductions rather than relying on misleading carbon neutrality claims based on carbon credits.

• Corporate progress is often obscured by 'creative accounting (mal)practices', including the premature use of carbon credits, environmental attribute certificates, and market-based electricity accounting.
• Greenwashing remains prevalent, with many companies claiming carbon neutrality through the purchase of carbon credits while failing to disclose the specific details of those transactions.
• Voluntary initiatives and frameworks are insufficient; there is an urgent need for ambitious government legislation to facilitate transitions compatible with a 1.5°C limit.
• Carbon credits should only serve as a supplement to, and not a replacement for, emission reductions within a company's own value chain.
• There is a lack of integrated key transition measures and clear sectoral benchmarking guidance within current legislation and corporate accountability standards.

APA

Carbon Market Watch (2025). Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2025. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/campaigns/corporate-climate-responsibility-monitor-2025/

Chicago

Carbon Market Watch. Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2025. 2025. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/campaigns/corporate-climate-responsibility-monitor-2025/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Carbon Market Watch |title=Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2025 |date=9 July 2025 |url=https://carbonmarketwatch.org/campaigns/corporate-climate-responsibility-monitor-2025/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{carbonmarketwatch2025corporate, author = {{Carbon Market Watch}}, title = {{Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2025}}, institution = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2025}, month = jul, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/campaigns/corporate-climate-responsibility-monitor-2025/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }