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In Defence of Corporate Climate Action

We Mean Business Coalition

Speaking at COP27 in Egypt last year, UN Secretary General António Guterres was clear: “the criteria and benchmarks for… net zero commitments have varying levels of rigor, and loopholes wide enough to drive a diesel truck through. We must have zero tolerance for net zero greenwashing.”

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Can Sustainability Standards Minimise Friction and Divergence?

Chris Hall

“The current lack of [standardisation] poses a significant cost to asset owners and limits their ability to incorporate these issues into investment decision-making,” says the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA), a group of 74 institutional investors with US$10.6 trillion in assets. .