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Kumar Venkat
Kumar Venkat is the founder and CEO of Climate Trajectories, a company providing climate data services. He previously worked at the forefront of corporate carbon emissions accounting and decarbonization as the CTO of Planet FWD and CEO of CleanMetrics.
Kumar Venkat
Mar 01 2023
Corporate net zero is a heavy lift - Emission reduction pools could help
The idea of net zero is only about a decade old and followed the IPCC report which stated in 2013 that net anthropogenic emissions of CO2 would have to reach zero in order to eventually stop global warming. Between 2015 and 2020, countries like Sweden and the UK incorporated midcentury net zero targets into law. Today net zero pledges cover 91% of the global economy and 2050 is the universal target year by which all of these pledges must turn into actual net zero emissions. But getting to that endpoint or even to the near-term target of 20–40% reduction in the next decade is a heavy lift for many companies.
Recent publications
Kumar Venkat
Feb 09 2023
The shaky logic of corporate emission reduction claims
The shaky logic of corporate emission reduction claims
Kumar Venkat
Jan 13 2023
Is regenerative farming being oversold as a climate solution?
Is regenerative farming being oversold as a climate solution?