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Navigating net zero in a volatile world: How can businesses stay on track to meet climate goals?

Business Green

BusinessGreen's latest business roundtable saw corporate sustainability leaders discuss how they were driving progress towards climate goals against an increasingly fraught economic and political backdrop. And so, while I am seeking to pass the baton and distribute that responsibility, it also makes me quite nervous.".

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Are the climate and coronavirus crises really so alike?

Business Green

It is a point that was echoed late last week by BP CEO Bernard Looney, who in a quietly remarkable blog post stressed that the pandemic would not compromise the company's newly announced pledge to deliver net zero emissions. Coronavirus is like a disaster film running on fast forward, each day bringing worse news. Amen to that.

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Havas CEO Yannick Bolloré Staked His Brand on Caring About the Climate. So Why Is His Company Working for Shell?

DeSmogBlog

Interviewer Thomas Kolster, the author of the book “Goodvertising: Creative advertising that cares”, opens with a softball: “Yannick, advertising and climate can seem like quite an oxymoron. So why do you care about the climate?” Bolloré answers: “I care about the climate for obvious reasons, because this is the planet where we’re living.

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'An atlas of human suffering': Top figures react to IPPC's latest climate warning

Business Green

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has built up quite the reputation for sobering yet highly influential reports on the state of the planet's biosphere, and with each publication its warnings have become increasingly forthright and urgent as scientific understanding has improved. Today's report continues that disturbing trend.

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Net Zero Nature: Can business and nature join forces in the climate fight?

Business Green

A constant stream of negative news risks giving rise to hopelessness and nihilism, it is argued , which benefits nobody and undermines efforts to tackle the very real problems the world still faces. Yet, for all our apparent progress, there are some hard truths which urgently need confronting.

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Time waits for no planet

Business Green

How are you spending the New Year? Trying to calculate whether its worth buying a new annual rail pass when at least one week a month is set to be wiped out by strikes for the foreseeable? Trying to take bets on how many Prime Ministers we'll have next year? Come on in everyone, the water is full of sewage.

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In defence of net zero

Business Green

Concerns about the efficacy of net zero targets are justified, but could condemnation of the concept from Greta Thunberg and others inadvertently serve to undermine efforts to decarbonise? For much of the past two years the global push to deliver net zero emissions has enjoyed a remarkable golden run.