Amazon, ExxonMobil Called Out Over Climate Transparency

Amazon.com Inc., Exxon Mobil Corp. and Volvo are among more than 700 companies being targeted in a campaign backed by a large group of investors advocating for greater transparency when it comes to environmental impact.

Parcels sit heaped in boxes at an Amazon fulfillment center in Koblenz, Germany.

Photographer: Martin Leissl/Bloomberg

HSBC Global Asset Management, Investec Asset Management, and close to 85 other investors representing a combined $10 trillion in assets are asking companies to comply with the reporting process managed by CDP, a British nonprofit research group that solicits and scores corporate environmental disclosures.

Investors and interested observers need “consistent, comparable information collected in one place so that they can benchmark performance and ...