Global Youth Climate Training | 03 Net Zero or Not Zero-The Corporate Governance Landscape MANDARIN

Vikrant Srivastava discusses India's journey towards net zero emissions, highlighting challenges and opportunities, including a youth and indigenous community-led initiative to protect a forest from coal mining.
This session emphasises the importance of youth and indigenous leadership, transparency, accountability, and collaboration in achieving net-zero goals.
Camilla Hyslop introduces the Net Zero Tracker, a tool used to assess the robustness of entities' net-zero targets, with a focus on targets' coverage, governance, carbon credits, and synergies. The speakers discuss the concept of Scope emissions and the importance of covering historic emissions and the need for companies to have a plan to get to net-zero emissions.
The session concludes with a discussion on the concerns and complexities of the Net Zero governance landscape, including carbon markets and offsets, and the need for a commitment to Net Zero by 2050, covering all greenhouse gases, strong reporting and accountability, and consideration of global equity.