How are G7 companies really performing against the goals of the Paris Agreement?

Michael Holder
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Analysis by CDP and Oliver Wyman suggests corporates in the G7 are currently far off track for delivering 1.5C of warming, but decarbonisation trends are at least heading in a greener direction

During COP26 last year, as a flurry of fresh green pledges were announced, there were plenty of predictions as to what kind of climate the world was heading for under current decarbonisation trajectories....

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