'Red flag': How electricity and car firms are still set to accelerate past the 1.5C climate threshold

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Many major power companies still hold significant coal capacity | Credit: iStock
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Many major power companies still hold significant coal capacity | Credit: iStock

Largest study of its kind shows almost all the world's most influential power utility and automotive firms are still a long way from being on a 'climate-safe' decarbonisation pathway

Nearly all the world's leading carmakers and electric utility companies are set to blow a hole in their individual carbon budgets for limiting global warming to 1.5C, with their continued overreliance...

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