SF Climate Week 2024: Are Businesses and Governments Measuring What Matters?

May 1, 2024

Many businesses and governments have a goal of reaching net zero emissions. Sounds good. But what does “net zero” even mean? And how do we get...

Corporate Net Zero Pledges: Ambitious or Empty Promises?

January 21, 2022

One-fifth of the world's 2000 largest publicly traded firms have committed to net zero targets. Critics argue that such pledges are mere...

Jay Inslee, BP and Washington’s Climate Story

August 6, 2021

Earlier this year, Washington state passed a bill to put a price on carbon pollution across a huge swath of its economy. But it didn’t get there...

Mark Carney, Fatih Birol and the Narrow Path to Net Zero

July 9, 2021

Five years ago, most of the world’s nations entered into an agreement to dramatically ratchet down their carbon dioxide emissions with the goal...

Clearing the Air on Carbon Offsets

July 2, 2021

For more than two decades, carbon offset programs have promised individuals and businesses that they can reduce their overall carbon footprint by...

Letters to The Boss: Help Fix Our Climate

November 22, 2019

When more than a thousand Amazon employees walked off the job last September, it wasn’t higher wages or better benefits they were...

Carbon Offsets: Privileged Pollution?

August 30, 2019

A carbon offset is a credit – a way to offset a unit of pollution created in one place by, say, planting a tree, or otherwise sequestering...

Can California Go Carbon Neutral?

February 14, 2019

Just ten years ago, an entire state running on 100% renewable electricity seemed fanciful. But this dreamy vision became reality when, with the...

Is Silicon Valley as Green as it Claims?

March 7, 2018

Tech companies are cleaning up their data centers and building shiny new buildings that sip water and energy. But are they really as green as they...

California's Climate Crusade

August 30, 2017

Some environmentalists said the law extending California’s cap and trade system to 2030 is a sellout to the oil industry and it shortchanges...