Emissions-Cutting Plans Missing at Nearly Half of Firms Globally

Nearly half of companies haven’t drawn up plans to cut carbon emissions despite international attempts to limit climate change, according to results of a global survey released Thursday.

Most of the companies that lacked concrete plans to curb emissions also had no intention of developing them, the survey of 1,000 companies worldwide found. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, International Federation of Accountants, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP published their findings on the first day of the UN climate change conference in Dubai.

• Some 46% of the companies surveyed hadn’t drawn up a plan to cut their carbon emissions. Of those, 70% ...