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Is 'net-zero' greenwash?

GreenBiz

Indeed, "net-zero" is the new "zero waste" — remember way back in 2019 when everyone was making that commitment? Global net-zero commitments doubled in less than a year and commitments by companies more than tripled, rising from 500 at the end of 2019 to more than 1,500 by September. Climate Change. degrees C pathway.".

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Burberry’s Net Zero Emissions Goals Approved by SBTi

ESG Today

Luxury brand Burberry announced today that its climate goals have been approved by the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) as meeting the criteria to keep global warming to 1.5°C C in line with the Paris Agreement. C warming ambition, as required to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

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America’s Top 10 Companies for Environmental Performance in 2022

Just Capital

The IPCC, the UN’s climate research body, recently found that the world is currently on track for temperature increases more than double the 1.5°C C goal set in the Paris Agreement. Intuit ranks first among Software companies for its work to address climate change. The company set a verified 1.5°C

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The next frontier is "connected chemistry," extending the internet of things to "the internet of natural resources," Beck said in 2019. Elsa Wenzel.