Det fremgår af en pressemeddelelse fra organisationen CDP (tidligere kendt som Carbon Disclosure Project), der samarbejder med virksomheder om at blotlægge klimaskadelige udledninger.
Rapporten viser på baggrund af en rundspørgsel, at adskillige af verdens største virksomheder aktivt er i færd med at inddrage den nye globale klimaaftale i deres forretiningsplaner. Herilandt er flere danske virksomheder.
De fremgår ikke af nedenstående pressemeddelelse, men kan findes fra side 34 i rapporten her:
Af danske virksomheder er bl.a. nævnt Carlsberg, Danske Bank A/S, Lundbeck A/S, Grundfos og Novozymes A/S med på listen.
Her er pressemeddelelsen fra CDP:
19 September, 2016: As the Paris Agreement approaches the threshold to become international law, companies have started to factor in the profound impacts this could have on their business operations, revenue and expenditure, reveals a new policy briefing from CDP.
According to data disclosed since COP21 by companies to CDP, the NGO holding the most comprehensive set of global corporate environmental data, more than 600 major corporations globally with a combined market cap of US$12 trillion are already starting to factor in the Paris Agreement to their business plans.
These include Anglo American, AkzoNobel, BHP Billiton, E.ON, Iberdrola, L’Oréal, Deutsche Lufthansa, Nestlé, Nike and Siemens.
The responses follow CDP’s 2016 request for corporate climate-related data from 827 institutional investors.
Companies were asked, among other questions, to identify any inherent climate change-related risks or opportunities that have the potential to generate substantive changes to their operations, revenue and expenditure, and to also detail their management responses to these risks and opportunities.
More an opportunity than a risk
Companies operating in the high-emitting utilities sector were the most likely to already say that the Paris deal is impacting their business, with 47% highlighting this in their CDP disclosure.
Businesses in other highest-emitting sectors – energy and materials – were also among the most likely to identify changes as a consequence of the global climate change agreement. More companies identified the deal as an opportunity (341) than a risk (272).
However, more than two-thirds of all companies (1,738) that disclosed to investors via CDP did not mention the Paris deal as a risk or opportunity that could generate substantive changes to how they do business.
CDP’s chief executive officer Paul Simpson says: “
The entry into force of the Paris Agreement will be a watershed moment for global corporations, reaffirming the end of business as usual and the inevitability of our low-carbon future”.
“These findings tell us that many companies are already aware of the momentous impact this new reality will have on their business operations, but they also suggest that an even larger number of companies are yet to grapple with the critical question of what the Paris Agreement means for them”.
“This is a question that investors expect all companies to be able to address, and disclosure is the first step to answering this. Now the stage is set for governments and companies to focus on the urgent task of implementation: the low-carbon transition is one of our biggest economic opportunities.”
Impacts on business operations
With country’s emissions reduction commitments under the Paris deal set to become legally binding, companies across all sectors can expect to see impacts on their business operations.
For those operating in sectors with high carbon exposure, these impacts could be significant. The cement industry, which accounts for 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, risks losing US$4.5 billion in earnings annually even from a modest price on carbon ($10/tonne of CO2 emissions).
The growing awareness of climate change as a business issue is reflected in new research by CDP, which shows that companies are accelerating their use of carbon pricing in response to existing and expected regulatory signals.
This year over 1,200 companies disclosed the current use of or planned use of an internal price on carbon to CDP, an increase of a fifth since 2015.
About CDP
CDP, formerly Carbon Disclosure Project, is an international, not-for-profit organization providing the global system for companies, cities, states and regions to measure, disclose, manage and share vital information on their environmental performance.
CDP, voted number one climate research provider by investors, works with 827 institutional investors with assets of US$100 trillion and 89 purchasing organizations with a combined annual spend of over US$2.7 trillion, to motivate companies to disclose their impacts on the environment and natural resources and take action to reduce them.
CDP now holds the most comprehensive collection globally of primary corporate environmental data and puts these insights at the heart of strategic business, investment and policy decisions. Please visit www.cdp.net/ or follow us @CDP to find out more.
