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This year, ‘greenrinsing’ – shifting climate targets after luring investment – cast a shadow over corporate decarbonisation efforts, while fossil fuel firms leaned on carbon capture technologies to justify ongoing expansion and promoted natural gas as "clean".
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‘Greenrinsing’: Firms setting and dropping net-zero targets to create revolving door for finance, says UN official
Some companies have been gaming their climate targets to attract investment, with most struggling to cut "impossible" supply chain emissions, the United Nations Global Compact Network Thailand executive director said at an event in Singapore last week.
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Indonesia’s massive captive coal plans are putting climate targets and economy at risk: study
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