Science-based Targets, Greenwashing and Brownscraping: Net Zero in the Private Sector - Myles Allen

Gresham College Lectures

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Over half the world’s largest companies have a net zero strategy. But what stops “Science-based Targets” from becoming box-ticking exercises too often immune to environmental scrutiny? Instead of decarbonizing companies and financial portfolios, this lecture will discuss the need to focus on decarbonizing products and services themselves so that companies must explain how they plan to stop what they sell from causing global warming.
This lecture was recorded by Myles Allen on 14th January 2025 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London.
Myles is the Frank Jackson Foundation Professor of the Environment.
Myles is also is currently Director of the Oxford Net Zero initiative. He was awarded the Appleton Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics in 2010, and in 2022 a CBE for services to climate change attribution, prediction and net zero. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
The transcript of the lecture is available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/net-zero-private
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