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There's a new push to get net-zero targets to matter

Corporate Knights

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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Net Zero Progress by Firms and Governments “Still Too Slow”

Chris Hall

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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Bridging Asia’s ESG Information Gap

Chris Hall

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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How climate risk disclosure became a battleground for the clean economy

Corporate Knights

But the lack of common standards and real accountability has created uncertainty and enabled greenwashing. Mandatory climate-risk disclosure is short on cheerleaders. Opponents see it as red tape and a constraint on competitiveness, while many climate campaigners say its the bare minimum.

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Can comedians save the climate movement from jargon and greenwash?

Corporate Knights

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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From 'climate quitting' to 'global boiling,' 10 terms that defined 2023

Corporate Knights

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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Advancing Climate Justice Priorities Over Profit-Led Research

Stanford Social Innovation

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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