Fig. 7
From: An audit of corporate decarbonisation ambition against low carbon futures
(a) The year distribution of base dates and target dates of company emissions reporting and targets. The majority of targets are set no further than 2030, with some very short term 2025 targets and some long-term 2050 targets. (b) Reduction ambition interpolated or extrapolated at 2030 and 2050 shows strong modality at 50% reduction in 2030, and 100% reduction in 2050. (c) Reduction ambition visualised from each base year, interpolated through stated targets and extrapolated out to 2050 by an exponential function. Targets are taken from both CDP and SBTi. Colours indicate a coarse clustering of the reduction profiles, strongly indicating that companies set targets with significant basis on guidance such as though CDP or SBTi, or their peer groups.
