How Yum Brands Will Reduce Emissions 50% by 2030 (Credit: Pixabay) Yum Brands, parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, today announced it will decrease its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 46% by 2030 in partnership with its franchisees, suppliers, and producers. The company also pledged to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The science-based targets (SBTs) are consistent with reductions required to keep warming to 1.5 ºC and have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative. Yum’s climate change strategy will focus primarily on emission reductions at its more than 50,000...