Companies must set climate targets in line with science - executives

Reuters ^ | January 11, 2021 | By Susanna Twidale, Nina Chestney

[Oldeconomybuyer]

LONDON - Companies must listen to scientists and align their plans to reach net zero targets with a global pact to fight climate change, executives told a Reuters Next conference on Monday.

But time is running out and scientists have delivered stark warnings that society as a whole needs rapid and unprecedented change to curb global warming and avoid catastrophic climate change.

“Governments and companies need to be thinking about what the scientists are telling us. COVID-19 teaches us that,” said Sean Kidney, Chief Executive Officer, Climate Bonds Initiative.

“Look at the mess made in Britain and the United States from not listening to scientists. That is what climate change is shaping up to be and it’s a huge disaster.”

At least $1 trillion a year of capital was needed to finance the low-carbon transition and the most powerful tool to enable that was a clear and science-based price on carbon and all greenhouse gas emissions, Kidney said.

Although that has been hard to achieve at a global level, regional carbon markets can play a role in incentivising companies to invest in low or zero carbon technologies and move away from fossil fuels.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Richard Axtell]

Science, sorry... no science here. I recommend the office down the hall, the “Ministry of Political and Scientific Fraud.”

[ClearCase_guy]

"Companies must set climate targets in line with POLITICAL science - executives"

Fixed it.

[COBOL2Java]

[JonPreston]

The biggest companies will avoid this hassle by buying carbon credits, and the more climate red tape for their lesser completion the better they do.

See how this stuff works?

[Alberta's Child]

“Governments and companies need to be thinking about what the scientists are telling us. COVID-19 teaches us that,” said Sean Kidney, Chief Executive Officer, Climate Bonds Initiative.

So the snake oil salesman says we need to listen to scientists who claim that snake oil is essential for our survival? LOL.

[BuffaloJack]

Climate change science is not science; it is religion.

[Sir_Humphrey]

This should be our first major act of civil disobedience. Do what we can not to comply wit this and, if need be, take action to subvert their efforts.

We live in a new era and have to approach things differently

[Vision]

Companies must set climate targets in line with science (which is not able to be openly debated) - executives

[ConservativeInPA]

Any company that follows the direction of climate change scientists needs to be destroyed. The corporate-globalist cabal has gone after our free speech and now they are going after every other choice that we have. Only support businesses on the right.

[trublu]

Planned Parenthood must set abortion targets in line with science.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Fifty two years ago the US was polluted and needed to clean up. Suddenly it was found that pollution was leading us into a NEW ICE AGE, and we better clean up or freeze to death!

1970 – Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself? (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970)
1970 – New Ice Age May Descend On Man (Sumter Daily Item, January 26, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Prospect A Chilling One (Owosso Argus-Press, January 26, 1970)
1970 – Pollution’s 2-way ‘Freeze’ On Society (Middlesboro Daily News, January 28, 1970)
1970 – Cold Facts About Pollution (The Southeast Missourian, January 29, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Agency Reports (St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Called Ice Age Threat (St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 1970)

So the US cleaned up, but we did a too good a job. Now we are gonna die by Glo-Bull Warming!

POPULAR SCIENCE, Feb 1980..
PS/What’s News ....
page 73
Changing the weather intentionally or otherwise weather modification..(Earth cooling vs Greenhouse effect)

“Do you suppose we can learn enough, soon enough, to pull off a balancing act with the CO2 blanket saving us from another ice age?”

[Vaduz]

scientists with BA degree agree.

[dfwgator]

Meanwhile, China will completely ignore it and become the world’s dominant economy.

[allwrong57]

Using science would mean there would be no climate change.