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New retail associations have pledges to the Race to Zero Retail Campaign at COP15

In response to the accelerated pace at which corporates are examining and setting net-zero targets to help alleviate the climate crisis, edies monthly Net-Zero Business podcast was created. Up next, we talk low-carbon retail with B&Q owner Kingfi...

Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit climate-warming gases while financial intermediaries profit. By fostering the fiction that others can be paid to cut greenhouse gases (GHGs) instead, it undermines efforts to do so. Committing to achieve “net zero” carbon emissions has become a major climate change policy goal. But most climate scientists agree the target is dangerously misleading. Ostensibly promoting decarbonisation, it actually allows carbon emissions to continue rising.

Retail giant Walmart will offer early invoice payments to suppliers reducing their emissions in line with climate science, as it strives to avoid a gigaton of supply chain emissions by 2030.

Decarbonizing transportation is essential to meet climate goals and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels by 2050.

Although air-conditioning has improved well-being and productivity in many parts of the world, the underlying technology has long been stuck in a cycle of incremental change. The Global Cooling Prize has proved that air-conditioning is primed for a transformation - and that it can be super efficient, climate-friendly and affordable.

Screwfix and B&Qs parent firm Kingfisher has had carbon reduction targets consistent with the required pace to limit global warming to the 1.5C target of the Paris Agreement approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), while both pack...

Six months out from the COP26 summit, edie hosted an exclusive virtual roundtable discussion with a select group of sustainability leaders, exploring how businesses can accelerate the net-zero carbon transition in the run-up to the crucial climate...

May 27, 2021 You are here: Home / Business / The race to net-zero is on. This is how we can cross the finish line The race to net-zero is on. This is how we can cross the finish line (Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Justin Adams, Executive Director, Tropical Forest Alliance, World Economic Forum & Gonzalo Muñoz, Conference of the Parties (COP) Champion for Chile, COP25 High Level Clima...

COP26 President Alok Sharma at the opening of the World Economic Forums ‘Climate Breakthroughs: The Road to COP26 and Beyond.