How just 157 multinationals are driving global industrial emissions - and how to stop them

James Murray
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How just 157 multinationals are driving global industrial emissions - and how to stop them

New analysis reveals that 'a handful of large corporates' are responsible for the bulk of industrial emissions - but is this a problem or an opportunity?

Just 100 companies are responsible for 71 per cent global emissions. It is a fact that has become so embedded in the climate discourse that it is almost the stuff of cliché - a shorthand with which to...

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