Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

As a strategy, the net-zero target has been criticized by climate advocates; at its worst, it can be a vague, unenforceable greenwashing program. RELATED: Corporate climate standards are falling short. Mexico's new president is a climate scientist – what will that mean for its energy policy? In the U.S.,

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The world’s remaining ‘ carbon budget ’ – the amount of CO2 that can be emitted to have a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 ° C – has actually halved in the past three years, according to a group of leading climate scientists.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 10, 2022

This, coupled with a nascent taxonomy process, makes investors even more than usually vulnerable to greenwashing. . A Climate Data Steering Committee has also been set up to “advise on the design of a unified global open climate data platform that will be available to the market, regulators, climate scientists and civil society”. .

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In October, the Center for Media & Social Impact received US$1 million in new donor funding for its humour programs, including the Climate Comedy Cohort, a nine-month fellowship that puts together comedians with climate scientists. Climate science is complicated, so were translating it into human, the series claims.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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.” It added up to the hottest week ever recorded in what became the hottest summer ever recorded.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

Without intentional climate justice and public interest approaches to these benchmarks, net-zero campaigns are unlikely to confront the root issues of the climate crisis: a fossil-fuel-dependent geopolitical system driven by centuries of colonial-led extractive mining systems and resource control.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

From greenwashing to greenhushing Fear of getting caught in the crosshairs of the climate-messaging wars has contributed to a growing number of companies going quiet. We need to challenge any corporate leader [or] CEO of a bank or pension fund who says we need to go orderly on this and slow, Brooks says.

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