I traced 14,180 companies with climate commitments through the global corporate
ownership registry. Here's what I found.
0%
of sustainability-committed companies could be matched to a legal entity in the
global registry
SBTi14,023
RE100100
EV100116
EP100106
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Global Entity Registry
GLEIF
Every legal entity registered in the Global LEI System — the baseline universe
I search against.
3,219,530 entities
3.2M
Filter to sustainability-committed companies
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Sustainability Commitments
Source
Companies pledged to SBTi, RE100, EV100, or EP100 — compiled and deduplicated
into a unified source list.
14,180 companies
14.2K
Exact + fuzzy name matching against GLEIF
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Matching Outcome
Match
Each company scored via RapidFuzz — classified as auto-match (≥95), needs review
(85–95), or unmatched (<85).
7,641
Auto-matched · 53.9%
396
Review · 2.8%
6,143
Unmatched · 43.3%
⚠43% of sustainability companies couldn't be linked — name mismatches, no
LEI registration
Check which matched entities appear in ownership network
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Corporate Ownership Network
Network
Only 13% of all GLEIF entities report any ownership relationship. The network
has 634K edges with extreme concentration — one parent entity controls 5,309 subsidiaries.
419,290 in network · 13% of all
419K
Key Insight
Of 14,180 companies with sustainability commitments, only 53.9% could be
automatically matched to a verified legal entity. The remaining 6,143 fall through the
cracks — due to name discrepancies, informal operating names, or simply having no LEI registration. Even
among matched entities, only 13% of the global registry reports any ownership structure
at all — meaning tracing sustainability pledges up the corporate chain remains a fundamental blind spot
in climate accountability.