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

摘要

A report from a sustainability benchmarking group found that themajority of the world's 50 leading utilities — including 10 US powercompanies — are still exceeding their carbon budgets and fallingbehind the Paris Agreement's climate goals.The Nov. 24 assessment by the World Benchmarking Alliance foundthat just three of 50 "keystone" power companies — considered to beleaders in low-carbon energy — have set emission reduction targetsaligned with the most ambitious goal under the 2015 Paris Agreementon climate change. The pact calls to limit global average surfacetemperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industriallevels.