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Net Zero Is Not Zero — Maureen Santos and Linda Schneider

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Https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/net-zero-climate-pledges-are-greenwashing-by-maureen-santos-and-linda-schneider-2021-11Recent carbon-neutrality pledges may seem ambitious, but merely serve to promote a new set of false climate solutions under a different guise. Such pledges may persuade many people, but the climate isn’t buying it.Project syndicateNet Zero Is Not ZeroMaureen Santos, Coordinator of the National Advisory Group of the Federation of Organizations for Social and Educational Assistance (FASE), is a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and a former program coordinator in the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Rio de Janeiro office.Linda Schneider, Senior Program Officer for International Climate Policy at the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Berlin

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https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/net-zero-climate-pledges-are-greenwashing-by-maureen-santos-and-linda-schneider-2021-11Recent carbon-neutrality pledges may seem ambitious, but merely serve to promote a new set of false climate solutions under a different guise. Such pledges may persuade many people, but the climate isn’t buying it.
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Net Zero Is Not Zero
Maureen Santos, Coordinator of the National Advisory Group of the Federation of Organizations for Social and Educational Assistance (FASE), is a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and a former program coordinator in the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Rio de Janeiro office.
Linda Schneider, Senior Program Officer for International Climate Policy at the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Berlin office.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/net-zero-climate-pledges-are-greenwashing-by-maureen-santos-and-linda-schneider-2021-11

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