How Soon Should Companies Prepare for a 2°C World?

Look through the new five-year outlook from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and you won’t see the U.N. atmospheric science body use the words “emergency”  or “disaster.” And yet it would be hard for anyone even semi-literate in the science of climate change to flip through it without a sense of urgency and alarm. 

The report, released earlier this week, finds that global temperatures will continue at or near record levels with a possibility that the temperature-rise since the Industrial Revolution nears 2°C by 2030.