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Time remaining to rein in the worst impacts of a warming climate
Listed companies would deplete their share of the global carbon emissions budget for limiting temperature rise to 1.5°C (2.7°F) by October 2026, based on their Scope 1 emissions as of May 31, 2024. To limit warming to 1.5°C, companies would need to collectively cap future Scope 1 emissions at 26.7 gigatons (Gt) of CO2e emissions by 2050. Without any change to their current emissions, companies would deplete their remaining emissions budget in 2 years, 5 months. To limit warming to 2°C (3.6°F), listed companies would need to collectively cap future Scope 1 emissions at 198 Gt of CO2e by 2050. Without any change to their current emissions, companies would deplete their remaining emissions budget in 18 years, 2 months.
29 months
remaining at current rate to achieve +1.5°C
203 months
remaining at current rate to achieve +2.0°C
Total carbon budget remaining
Source: MSCI Research, data as of May 31, 2024
Eleven percent of listed companies align with a 1.5°C pathway
Source: MSCI Research, data as of May 31, 2024
Estimate is based on MSCI's Implied Temperature Rise metric, which estimates the rise in average global temperatures if the whole economy had the same carbon-budget overshoot or undershoot as the company or portfolio in question.