Companies increasingly factor extreme weather into their strategic planning and a report from the United Nationsdue on Friday is expected to underscore the heightened risks they face.

Extreme temperatures, droughts, and sea level rises will all get worse unless governments make sharp cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) summary report is expected to conclude.

It is also expected to say human activities are “extremely likely” – at least a 95 percent probability – to be the main cause of warming since the 1950s, according to leaked drafts of the report seen by Reuters.

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