Target 13.b: Climate planning capacity in least developed countries
Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
Why shareholder democracy is helpful
This target concerns institutional planning and management capacity in least developed countries and small island developing States, with an explicit focus on women, youth, and marginalized communities. It is delivered mainly by national governments, UN agencies, and bilateral donors. A corporate contribution is documented. At the World Meteorological Organization conference preparing the UN Early Warnings for All initiative, technology companies committed to contribute cloud computing, artificial intelligence and alerting platforms. Those companies included Google, Microsoft, IBM and Alibaba. The initiative aims to protect the third of the world's people who still lack warning coverage, concentrated in the most vulnerable countries. Owners of technology and telecom shares can press for that provision to be sustained and extended. No case of corporate conduct or lobbying obstructing this capacity is documented. The core work of building planning and management institutions stays with governments and donors, so owners help at the margin.
How this was scoredHelpful
Helpful. Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
We have not yet written down the two answers behind this rating. Recording them on every item, so a reader can check the reasoning and not only the conclusion, is work in progress.
Every rating is the higher of two answers, one for what companies do and one for what they spend to stop the outcome, because the same vote reaches both. See the full method.
Sources
No shareholder advocacy found yet
We looked and found nothing that met our standard, which is a source we opened and confirmed. The Early Warnings for All corporate commitments by Google, Microsoft, IBM and Alibaba are company philanthropy and in-kind provision, not action taken by owners. No shareholder proposal, investor letter or coalition engagement asking companies to sustain or extend climate planning and management capacity in least developed countries or small island developing States was located. WebSearch budget for the session was exhausted partway through this batch, so only directory and tracker fetches were possible for this entry.
How this rating was made
Every item on every one of our maps is read against one question: how far does this depend on the people who own companies voting their values? We answer it twice, once for what companies do and once for what they spend to stop the outcome, and take whichever answer is higher, since the same vote reaches both. The score carries its reasoning and its sources so that a reader can check it rather than take it.
- Pivotal. Owners voting their values can deliver most of the outcome.
- Necessary. Owners remove an obstacle nothing else removes, and others must also act.
- Helpful. Owners voting their values help, and others carry most of it.
- Independent. This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.
The advocacy record on this page holds only what a source we opened says happened. Where we searched and found nothing, the page says so rather than leaving a silence. Where a campaign names a filer the source does not name, it says that too. Ratings are ours; the list of subjects is UN Sustainable Development Goals's, and we link to their original.
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