Many leading utilities remain off track to meet Paris Agreement climate goal: report

摘要

A report from a sustainability benchmarking group found that the majority of the world's 50 leading utilities — including 10 US power companies — are still exceeding their carbon budgets and falling behind the Paris Agreement's climate goals. The Nov. 24 assessment by the World Benchmarking Alliance found that just three of 50 "keystone" power companies — considered to be leaders in low-carbon energy — have set emission reduction targets aligned with the most ambitious goal under the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. The pact calls to limit global average surface temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.