by Helen Bunting | Aug 14, 2024
Today’s global net-zero governance landscape fails to recognize some of the most important strategic actions companies can take to mitigate climate change. Standards have been built primarily to guide companies in setting targets (e.g. through the Science Based...
by Helen Bunting | Jun 14, 2024
Net-zero governance instruments demonstrate increasing convergence around key issues, but major gaps remain to ensure emissions reduction targets and plans are urgent, rigorous and effective. Net zero pledges have proliferated in recent years, and now cover 92% of...
by Helen Bunting | Apr 22, 2024
New report from Net Zero Tracker Weighted by annual revenue, net zero targets now cover nearly 80% of the world’s largest 2,000 publicly listed companies, up from less than 20% in 2020. The integrity and clarity of these targets are weak, but voluntary target-setting...
by Helen Bunting | Feb 8, 2024
The production and use of fossil fuels need to decline rapidly to limit global warming. Although global net-zero scenarios abound, the associated development ramifications for fossil fuel-producing low and lower–middle income countries (LLMICs), as well as adequate...
by George Hope | Jan 22, 2024
The proliferation of pledges to reach net-zero emissions has revealed a wide range of understandings of what such a pledge entails. The lack of international standards to define decarbonisation pathways and the many kinds of speculative offsets available for net-zero...
