India rejects net zero carbon emissions target; Australia adopts target but won’t legislate goal
New Delhi, IndiaReuters India on Wednesday rejected calls to announce a net zero carbon emissions target and said it was more important for the world to lay out a pathway to reduce such emissions and avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures. India, the world’s third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the United […]
Net-zero emissions targets adopted by one-fifth of world’s largest companies
Thomson Reuters Foundation One in five of the world’s 2,000 largest publicly listed companies have now committed to a “net-zero” emissions target to help tackle climate change, researchers said on Tuesday. The companies, representing nearly $US14 trillion in sales, have promised to cut their planet-heating emissions to net zero by mid-century – meaning they will […]