The share of revenue from publicly-traded corporate net zero targets meeting minimum procedural standards has increased almost four-fold in a year, signalling momentum, but firms must urgently strengthen targets. The use of offsets is ill-defined across all entities,...
At this year’s COP26 climate summit, a big theme was the need for improved accountability from corporate, state, and non-state actors. As we enter the decisive decade for climate action, having a comprehensive understanding of emissions and global commitments to...
The need for improved accountability was a key theme at the COP-26 Glasgow climate summit, which concluded in mid-November. At the World Leaders Summit held during the first week, UN Secretary Antonio Guterres announced the initiation of an ‘accountability taskforce’...
Data-Driven EnviroLab (DDL) and Google’s Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) are teaming up to assess climate emissions for around 13,000 cities that have pledged voluntary climate targets, as recorded in DDL’s ClimActor database. The ClimActor database revealed...
With COP26 concluded, waves of new and updated climate action plans from countries across the world have been a welcomed (if still insufficient) sight. But the gap between country-level ambition and “safe” (<1.5°C) levels of global heating remains large. To address...
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