'How do you transform an entire economy?' The firm taking on the climate funding problem
by Adam Morton Environment editor from on (#4WJRC)
Martijn Wilder says more companies are talking about the climate crisis but not moving quickly enough - and his new firm Pollination aims to improve that
A growing number of governments, including of every Australian state, Britain and the European Union, have set targets of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Few have mapped how to get there.
It is a similar story in the corporate sector. Businesses are under increasing pressure from investors and shareholders to back up claims they are committed to the goals of the Paris agreement. Take BHP, one of the world's 20 big emitters: it has set a mid-century net-zero emissions target but is yet explain how it will reach it, and plans to invest more in oil and gas than climate solutions.
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