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

Corporate Knights

Over the last decade and a half, a standard form has emerged in which governments and corporations have made their promise to do so: the net-zero target. As a strategy, the net-zero target has been criticized by climate advocates; at its worst, it can be a vague, unenforceable greenwashing program. In the U.S.,

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New Initiative Aims to Reinvigorate Push to 1.5°C

Chris Hall

If we don’t act now and halve our global emissions by 2030, we simply won’t reach net zero emissions by 2050 – it’s as simple as that.” Authored by some of the world’s top climate scientists and scholars, the report found the impacts of climate change would be significantly more treacherous to human life if that threshold was breached.

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US oil company buys Canadian carbon capture tech to fuel oil extraction future

Corporate Knights

Earlier this year, she said DAC will one day help Occidental bring its operations to net-zero, allowing it to continue investing in oil extraction. “We But CDR is not a replacement for deep emissions reductions, said climate scientist and IPCC author Zeke Hausfather. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

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Climate Tech BeZero Carbon Raises $50 Million to Expand Carbon Credit Ratings Platform

ESG Today

The financing marks the largest capital raise in the UK this year, and brings the total raised by BeZero Carbon to more than $70 million in the past year. Starting with carbon, effective ecosystem markets have huge potential to accelerate the Net Zero transition and generate economic prosperity.