The trillion-dollar question behind corporate net-zero pledges

Corporate climate spending now steers trillions of dollars in transition finance worldwide.

Does it drive genuine climate action?

Research shows that accounting flexibility alone can make a company's reported emissions vary by roughly a factor of two—enough to appear either as a climate leader or a laggard.

A new perspective in Nature Sustainability proposes developing industry-specific net-zero blueprints to close that gap. ...