Consulting giant had said it engages with clients to help them transition to cleaner energy even as it knew they were in line to exceed climate targets
‘Capitalism incarnate’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuels
The world’s biggest consulting firm found that its clients were on a trajectory to bust global climate targets, details of internal forecasting in 2021 uncovered by the Centre for Climate Reporting (CCR) and the Guardian reveal.
McKinsey & Company has worked with some of the world’s biggest emitters, including many of the largest fossil fuel producers. It has previously argued it is necessary to engage these clients to help them transition to cleaner forms of energy and hit the target of limiting global warming to less than 1.5C above preindustrial levels.
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