One in three of the world's 2,000 largest public corporations have now set goals to become carbon neutral or emissions-free by mid-century or sooner. But with such self-set deadlines and varying definitions of what going "net-zero" actually means for a company, greenwashing is on the rise
Paris, France: Companies have been calculating their carbon footprints since the early 2000s and just over one in three of the world's 2,000 largest public corporations have now set goals to become carbon neutral or emissions-free by mid-century or sooner.