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Use of carbon pricing ‘tripled in the last year’
Source: Energy Live News
The number of corporations assigning a price to their carbon emissions in order to tackle climate change has tripled in the last year.
That’s according to a new report from CDP which stated the figure has increased to 437.
The companies are disclosing carbon price to reduce the costs and risks of their greenhouse gases production.
It revealed firms including Colgate-Palmolive, Stanley Black & Decker, ExxonMobil, General Electric, Nestle, Microsoft and Nissan are showing their concerns on climate change in their budgets.
These firms highlight the “inexorable rise of big name brands across all industries putting a price on their climate risk”, stated the CDP.
An additional 583 companies, including Yahoo! and CLP Holding, are planning to use internal carbon pricing within the next two years, it added.
