Study: Major steel, cement, and aluminium firms still off track for 1.5C goals

Michael Holder
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World Benchmarking Alliance research finds leading industrial manufacturing firms are failing to scale up clean tech R&D and align strategies with 1.5C compatible targets

Many of the world's biggest metals, cement, and mining companies are still failing to align their business strategies with the critical 1.5C global warming threshold and are not investing enough in the...

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