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It was also the first major economy to legally set a 2050 netzero goal. To help achieve this, auditing should also be made compulsory to prevent companies from implementing ‘creative carbon accounting’, a phrase famously used by Greta Thunberg to critique supposed government action following the Parisagreement.
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The same could be said for her, a longtime climate and energy-transition advocate who is deeply invested in several organizations trying to speed up the net-zero economy. I think companies and governments are realizing that actually achieving their net-zero targets is difficult. And there are different ways.
representative to the COP 21 meetings in Paris and guided the nation’s inclusion in the ParisAgreement. Against the above context, we share here a selection of the perspectives on the 5-Year Anniversary of the ParisAgreement. The Paris climate pact is 5 years old. Source: Science Magazine ).
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