Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Companies that wait to transition until there is a stronger policy response will face higher costs and a shorter window to achieve net zero commitments. Climate policy response by governments and investment in clean technologies must be accelerated to keep temperature rise near 1.5°C,

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

In what follows, I discuss major climate crisis R&D areas—net-zero and cap-and-trade systems, environmental data governance, and lithium-dependent EV technologies. The Cloud of Net-Zero. Carbon stories are a major feature of climate transition agendas. This is the clutch. Cap-and-Trade.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

In its climate marketing guide called Talk Like a Human, Potential Energy lays out tips and traps the latter of which this article has already fallen victim to. Words including decarbonization, net-zero, anthropogenic or carbon footprint dont work. Instead, lean into pollution, overheating and extreme weather.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

Both climate change and Putin’s invasion are directly tied to fossil fuels. This point was made in a Guardian article by Svitlana Krakovska, Ukraine’s leading climate scientist, and the head of a delegation of 11 Ukrainian scientists that contributed to the latest IPCC report. “I Russia is Funded by Oil Exports.

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