Climate Action 100+

UX redesign, data simplification and scorecard overhaul

Climate Action 100+ is one of the world’s most influential climate engagement initiatives, uniting hundreds of institutional investors to press the highest-emitting companies towards a net-zero future. At the centre of this effort sits the Net-Zero Company Benchmark – a detailed, multi-provider assessment that tracks corporate progress on climate action.

The climate benchmark is complex by nature. It brings together disclosures and alignment assessments from multiple organisations, each with their own methodologies. For investors, policymakers, analysts and civil society, the digital experience must therefore be clear, navigable and trustworthy. Climate Action 100+ asked us to evolve the benchmark’s online home – improving UX, simplifying scorecards, strengthening data visualisation and giving their team greater long-term control.

We then embarked on a highly-collaborative redesign whose goal was to make everything clearer, more transparent and user-friendly across the entire benchmark.

Understanding the challenge

Discovery work was quick to highlight several pain points. It became obvious that users were struggling to differentiate alignment and disclosure assessments, missing key information which was hidden behind toggles, and found the long, tightly-packed pages hard to navigate. Trying to move between sectors was unintuitive, and the attribution to assessment providers including TPI, CTI and InfluenceMap wasn’t always clear.

Behind the scenes, the Climate Action 100+ team faced time-consuming annual updates, with complicated Excel imports, inconsistent layouts, and a backend that had become cumbersome. Given the benchmark had to evolve each year, flexibility was paramount.

It was clear the redesign needed to serve two equally important groups: the global users interpreting the data, and the internal teams maintaining and publishing it.

A UX-led redesign focused on clarity

Working closely with the Benchmarking and Comms teams, we rebuilt the benchmark experience from the ground up. One of the most significant changes was unifying alignment and disclosure into a single, coherent scorecard. This gives users a clearer overview, with collapsible sections that allow them to scan quickly or dig deeper without losing their place.

We strengthened visual hierarchy across company pages, clarified indicator groupings and improved contrast to support accessibility. Attribution is now visible at indicator level, helping users immediately understand the assessment provider behind each element of the score.

Sector pages were fully restructured to offer cleaner pathways and aggregated data, giving a “big-picture” view before users dive into individual companies. Historical data is now easier to interpret, helping investors understand progress over time.

Throughout the process, we refined backend systems to give Climate Action 100+ far greater flexibility. Scorecards can now be reordered without developer support, legacy data has been cleaned, and new modular components make annual updates significantly smoother.

A benchmark built for the future

The 2025 Benchmark launched with strong feedback from users and internal teams alike. As Senior Benchmark Manager Kerri-Anne Hempshall noted in her announcement, the new structure “streamlines presentation, adds flexibility for future years, and brings the assessments together into one framework.”

For users, the redesign makes dense climate information more accessible. Company pages are easier to understand, sector comparisons are clearer, and the underlying methodology is now more transparent. For the Climate Action 100+ team, the redesign delivers a more intuitive backend and faster, more resilient annual update cycles – crucial for an initiative operating on a global scale.

“Rebuilding the assessment and scorecard system was a rare chance to rethink something complex from first principles. The task was to make dense data feel intuitive for users – and far easier for the Climate Action 100+ team to maintain. We redesigned the scorecard framework, clarified how indicators are structured, and built a high-performance CSV importer to simplify annual updates. 

The result is a fast, scalable system that handles large datasets cleanly, supports dynamic filtering, and gives the team much greater control over how the benchmark evolves. By uniting UX, data architecture and engineering, we’ve created a platform built for the future – one that can stretch and grow as Climate Action 100+’s mission and data needs expand.” Dominic Ugbana, Senior WordPress Developer.

A clearer, more accountable digital platform

The new benchmark strikes a better balance:

• clear enough for non-specialists
• detailed enough for analysts
• transparent enough to build trust
• flexible enough to evolve every year

It enables Climate Action 100+ to track and challenge those companies that are integral to the net-zero transition, while offering investors and civil society a clearer picture of the progress that is being made.

Supporting the transition to net zero

Partnering with Climate Action 100+ on this project cements our commitment to ethical design, sustainability and meaningful digital impact. For organisations working with complex data, public accountability or climate action, we’re proud to create tools that help vital work reach the audiences it deserves.

If you need a clear way to share complex information, we’d love to chat.

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