NicoElNino/iStock(NEW YORK) Dubbed a "code red for humanity" by the head of the United Nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in its most-recent report that the impacts of human-induced climate change are already being seen in "every region across the globe" and urgent action must be taken immediately, not decades into the future, to mitigate the devastation. As scientists sound the alarms, it has become near-impossible for business leaders to ignore the research or the global, youth-led protests spurred by activists like Greta Thunberg, who view climate change as an intergenerational justice issue as a new generation of consumers accuse major greenhouse gas-emitting corporations of robbing the young of their future. In recent years, a slew of high-profile announcements have followed from hundreds of major U.S. companies, pledging to achieve "net-zero" emissions by a date often decades in the future. Some have welcomed these publ