Climate change
Greta leads the way
Climate change captured the public’s attention in 2019. This was the year when global emissions were set to reach their highest point ever at 43bn tonnes of carbon dioxide and 16-year-old Greta Thunberg gave world leaders both barrels at the UN. But it will take more than that to shift the priorities of the world’s major emitters. Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA) and BP (BP.) and others are still green-lighting new projects that will reportedly hinder the planet from hitting the Paris climate goals of keeping warming to between 1.5 and 2 degrees.