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Is impact out of scope? A call for innovation in climate standards to inspire action across companies’ Spheres of Influence

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...

Integrated modeling of nature’s role in human well-being: A research agenda

by Helen Bunting | Aug 12, 2024

Integrated assessment models that incorporate biodiversity and ecosystem services could be an important tool for improving our understanding of interconnected social-economic-ecological systems, and for analyzing how policy alternatives can shift future trajectories...

The Carbon Removal Budget: theory and practice

by Helen Bunting | Jul 18, 2024

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is a necessary complement to emissions reductions to achieve a state of global net zero emissions and stabilise future warming. Despite its utility, CDR remains poorly understood. Due to a range of constraints, CDR is a fundamentally...

Publics and counter-publics of net-zero

by Admin | Jan 16, 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...

Legal limits to the use of CO2 removal

by Admin | Nov 16, 2023

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has indicated that to hold global warming to 1.5°C, consistent with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions need to be reduced to net zero by around mid-century. This global goal...