Hepburn, Cameron Archives - Net Zero Climate

Turning a groundswell of climate action into ground rules for net zero

by George Hope | Apr 9, 2024

Following a groundswell of voluntary net-zero targets by companies, regulators are increasingly introducing mandatory rules. If governments can overcome the barriers to rigour, coherence and fairness, such mandatory ‘ground rules’ have the potential to overcome the...

Oxford Principles for Net Zero Aligned Carbon Offsetting (revised 2024)

by George Hope | Feb 27, 2024

Since the initial publication of the Principles in 2020, there has been growing interest in aligning organisational and offsetting strategies with net zero. Despite this, evidence continues to cast doubt on the integrity of many carbon credits used for offsetting, and...

Rolling out renewables in the Global South: A developer perspective

by Weir | Dec 12, 2023

This report is Part 1 of a three-year research project to consider clean energy investment in the Global South through a developer lens, complementing current thinking on both green finance and the just transition. The 2023 report establishes a baseline of the issues...

The meaning of net zero and how to get it right

by George Hope | Aug 1, 2023

The concept of net-zero carbon emissions has emerged from physical climate science. However, it is operationalized through social, political and economic systems. We identify seven attributes of net zero, which are important to make it a successful framework for...

Are We Running Out of Exhaustible Resources?

by George Hope | Aug 1, 2023

Mineral and material commodities are essential inputs to economic production, but there have been periodical concerns about mineral scarcity. However, there has been no systematic recent study that has determined whether mineral commodities have become scarcer over...