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Top 500 companies' carbon emissions rise despite calls for cuts

2014-12-23 10:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Greenhouse gas emissions by the worlds top 500 companies rose 3.1% from 2010 to 2013, far off the cuts urged by the United Nations to limit global warming, a study showed on Monday. The top 500 firms by capitalisation accounted for 13.8% of world greenhouse gas emissions and 28% of gross domestic product in 2013, according to the report, drawn up by the information provider Thomson Reuters and BSD Consulting, a global sustainability consultancy. Almost all of us use products from these companies,...

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