Energy & Science
Companies With Science-Based Climate Goals Cut Emissions Faster
More than 300 companies cut their emissions by 25% in between 2015 and 2019, even as global emissions rose
Many large global companies have now set a target for getting to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. But with most of those deadlines decades away, it can be difficult to tell if they’re on track now.
Companies have varying standards of setting short-term climate goals and differing ways of assessing whether they’ve achieved them. In a recent analysis, Bloomberg Green took stock of the five-year sustainability goals some of the biggest U.S. companies had set in 2015. The results showed that 138 out of 187 pledges had been met, partly because they were modest to start with.
