Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
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.,
Chris Hall
OCTOBER 11, 2023
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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Chris Hall
AUGUST 10, 2022
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”. .
Corporate Knights
APRIL 23, 2025
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.
Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 6, 2024
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.
Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 20, 2023
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.
Stanford Social Innovation
AUGUST 25, 2022
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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