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BeZero Carbon Raises $32 Million to Expand Carbon Credit Rating Platform into New Markets

ESG Today

London-based carbon credit ratings startup BeZero Carbon said it had raised $32 million, with proceeds aimed at enabling the company to expand into new markets, and to grow its capabilities and its team. The funds will allow us to sustain our pace of innovation and expand our ratings coverage to compliance carbon markets.

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There's a new push to get net-zero targets to matter

Corporate Knights

This is generally a voluntarily self-imposed deadline, usually decades away, by which the institution’s emissions will not necessarily actually reduce to zero, but rather by which they will at least be ostensibly canceled out by carbon offsets. RELATED: Corporate climate standards are falling short. In the U.S.,

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From 'climate quitting' to 'global boiling,' 10 terms that defined 2023

Corporate Knights

Then, September broke its previous monthly heat record by half a degree Celsius — a margin so stunning that Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist, declared it “ absolutely gobsmackingly bananas.” Carbon offsets are ‘riddled with fraud.’ Solving credibility issues may require a greater overhaul of carbon markets.