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Nearly 40% of companies missed or abandoned 2020 climate targets with no consequences, says study (phys.org)
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[–] 211@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Wait, over 60% met them or faced consequences?

Edit: "Almost 61% achieved their targets" holy fuck. Corporations did something good they said they would, over half the time.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do those targets involve carbon credits and other greenwashing measures that allow them to evade climate goals and are essentially state-sanctioned fraud?

I don't need to check, because I know they do.

[–] 211@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

True. I'm still shocked. This should be taken more as low estimate of corporations than admiration of their accomplishments. You know those goals were set as low as they could be, with as many tricks as there could be, and still I expected something like maybe 20% to stick to them at best.

[–] Beastimus@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's certainly one way you could phrase it, but given who the droppers were, this result pretty much checks out.