Changing the Climate on Corproate Emissions

The most recent global warming assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in August 2021, warns that human activity has caused an approximate 1.1°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels and that warming is likely to reach 1.5°C by between 2030 and 2040 if there is not a rapid shift to reduce emissions. Nevertheless, successive Emissions Gap Report assessments (latest December 2020) from the UN Environment Programme point to global warming of more than 3°C by the end of the century based on current national emissions reduction commitments. To limit the increase in global average temperatures to 1.5°C, emissions need to halve by 2030, and drop to net zero by the middle of the century for the best chance of avoiding the worst environmental, economic and human impacts of climate change.