Race To Zero
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Environmental concerns - climate risk management - United Nations.
Race To Zero is a United Nations led global campaign for entities below the level of national governments.
It aims to rally leadership and support from businesses, cities, regions, investors and educational institutions, to commit to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest.
- Concrete plan for the here and now
- "The Race To Zero is a gold standard...
- These are robust and rigorous targets based on the science that show net zero is not some vague aspiration for a distant point in the future, but a concrete plan for the here and now."
- Alok Sharma, COP 26 President - closing speech to the Responsible Business 2021 summit hosted by Reuters, published June 2021
See also
- Business Ambition for 1.5C
- Carbon-neutral
- COP26
- Emissions
- Environmental concerns
- ESG investment
- Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)
- Gold standard
- Green bond
- Green Bond Principles
- Greenhouse gas
- Hybrid
- Net zero
- Net-Zero Asset Managers initiative
- Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance
- Net-Zero Banking Alliance
- Real economy
- Road to Zero
- Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution (the Ten Point Plan)
- United Nations
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- Zero emissions
