The IEA’s Flagship report Global Energy Review: CO2 Emissions in 2021, revealed that global carbon emissions from energy increased by 6% in 2021, a growth of 2 billion tonnes of emissions, which is the biggest annual increase in history and completely offsets the COVID-related decline seen in 2020. Lindsay Ventress, Principal Consultant and Service Line Lead – Energy for Northern Europe at EcoAct, an Atos company, in the wake of the IEA report, discusses how businesses can work to mitigate this rebound in greenhouse emissions.
