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From Rhetoric to Practice

Chris Hall

The global economy, as it stands today, is clearly not yet geared towards sustainable development and the main global benchmarks reflect this. The United Nations estimates that getting to net zero carbon emissions will require investments of US$32 trillion in the next 10 years. This would be nearly double the 1.5°C

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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

In particular, we need to reduce 23 Gigatonnes by 2030 from the current 41 Gt emitted per year and achieve net-zero by 2050. In this context, several countries and companies have taken up the challenge, and currently, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges.