Nearly a third of companies currently have no way of monitoring their own carbon emissions, or the indirect emissions of their supply chain, and they have no plan to begin doing so, a new survey of global executives has found.
The survey, "A Change in the Climate," asked 634 executives at manufacturing and service-industry companies around the world what their companies are currently doing or plan to do in the near future about their own carbon-dioxide emissions.
Only one in ten of the companies responding said they comprehensively monitor their carbon impact across the entire business. One-quarter of companies monitor some or all of their emissions in parts of their operations, and 18 percent simply measure energy efficiency. One-third of the companies, 32 percent, said they neither monitor their emissions or have any plans to do so in the near future.
North American companies trail behind the rest of the world in cutting carbon costs, according to the survey. Only 7 percent of companies based in North America pay attention to their carbon footprint, and 41 percent neither monitor their emissions or plan to start such monitoring programs. In Europe, 28 percent of companies monitor their emissions, and 32 percent of companies globally do so.
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