NZT Lead John Lang examines why corporate climate leadership should be judged not just on companies' own emissions, but on how they use their broader influence to accelerate decarbonisation.

Companies should be judged on their climate influence

Frances Green, Net Zero Tracker Programme Manager, explores how the Historical Time Series dataset opens up new opportunities to understand how net zero commitments evolve over time.

Beyond the Snapshot: A decade of net zero commitments

New dataset enables researchers to track how net zero commitments have evolved since the Paris Agreement.

Net Zero Tracker Launches Decade-Long Time Series Dataset of Global Climate Commitments

NZT partner, NewClimate Institute's Frederic Hans examines what SBTi's updated Corporate Net Zero Standard means for the next phase of corporate climate accountability.

The new SBTi Net Zero Standard raises the floor. But who will raise the ceiling?

The latest climate science at a glance — all the key metrics and the path to net zero, in one infographic.

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025

Join the Net Zero Tracker and the Energy Transitions Commission on Thursday 9th July 2026, 11.30 BST for an exclusive 'Net Zero Week' webinar.

Webinar: Reclaiming Net Zero

Upgraded climate AI tool outperforms general-purpose chatbots on accuracy and energy efficiency – while introducing ‘per-query’ energy disclosure for transparency.

ChatNetZero Sets Benchmark for AI Energy Transparency and Climate Data Accuracy

Helen Tatlow, the Net Zero Tracker data lead, examines how corporate climate commitments can appear intact while quietly changing in substance, drawing on real-life examples.

Schrödinger's Net Zero Target: When Climate Targets Change Without Anyone Noticing

Analysis finds Brazil’s green grid anchors its role as a provider of low carbon goods - but rising oil dependence risks derailing progress - as its export partners decarbonise.

Brazil can trade oil dependence for rising clean export era

The 2025 Net Zero Stocktake explains the fourth phase of net zero's evolution: the age of contested implementation.

Global net zero commitments rise, even as U.S. federal government retreats

Analysis finds India’s coal dependence could slow rapid growth sectors — from Professional Services to Manufacturing — which are exposed to active and incoming carbon policies.

India's exports and jobs hinge on accelerating the clean transition

John Lang illustrates how diverse yet complementary institutional tools can collectively guide the private sector toward credible net zero.

The Net Zero Conveyor Belt

To keep exports competitive as key trading partners roll out carbon border taxes and clean-energy industrial policies, South Africa should accelerate the shift away from coal.

South Africa’s Export Engine at Risk as Biggest Markets go Clean

Join NZT lead John Lang for an exclusive webinar on the Net Zero Trade Nexus

Net Zero Week Webinar:            'Invisible Hands, How Net Zero Plans Are Rewriting Trade Rules'

The climate accountability system was born of necessity. Now, more than ever, philanthropy should step up to safeguard why it created it: to increase scrutiny and incentivise action.

Climate commitments without consequences?

How diverse yet complementary institutional tools can collectively guide the private sector toward credible net zero.

The Conveyor Belt Model - Sustainability Unlocked

Analysis of South Africa’s climate plans shows progress towards ‘Just Transition’ to net zero emissions - and opportunities to support poorer, coal-reliant regions that are least-prepared

Upgrading South Africa’s climate plans would direct a just net zero transition

Instead of backtracking on net zero, companies are retracting unsubstantiated carbon neutrality claims - a positive development

Companies are not ditching net zero - they are refining goals

Briefing on the ‘Net Zero Good Practice' snapshot, newly published by NZT, providing guidance for policymakers, regulators & companies navigating voluntary standards for credible net zero strategies.

Briefing: Net Zero Good Practice - what defines a credible net zero strategy?

As the world processes the outcome of the U.S. election, alongside Under2 we will discuss the implications for climate policy; the state of play on net zero; and launch the Climate Policy Monitor.

COP29 Side Event - Nov 13th, 18:30 AZT, Room 6, Blue Zone, COP29

The 2024 Net Zero Stocktake reveals the status of the world's climate commitments.

Regional governments key to next round of national carbon-cutting plans

In this video, Natasha Lutz explores the recent surge in net zero targets, and explains how exactly the Net Zero Tracker meticulously assesses these targets.

Assessing Net Zero Targets

The Net Zero Tracker is co-hosting a side event at the UN climate conference in Bonn with CDP, CISL, Climate Chance and InfluenceMap. Register below.

SB60 Side Event: The role of the private sector in bolstering NDCs on the road to COP30

Report finds only incremental improvement in climate commitments of the world's largest private companies since October 2022, despite rising regulation.

Privately-owned firms unprepared for incoming climate regulation

News from COP28 - the status of fossil fuel phase-out commitments across nations, regions, cities, and companies with net zero targets

Global net zero targets at risk due to scarcity of fossil fuel phase-out plans

Register to attend our COP28 side event, co-hosted with the Grantham Research Institute, LSE - 16:45 GST, 8th December.

COP28 Side Event: 'Ratcheting integrity of net zero commitments to unlock ambition loops and regain climate momentum', Fri 8th Dec, 16:45 GST

COP28 Press conference - Assessing Fossil Fuel Phase-out Plans Within Net Zero Targets, 10am GST, Mon 4th Dec 2023

The sheer number of climate tracking initiatives has become sanity straining. We're now pointing you in the direction of the most credible.

Stronger together: Signposting to credible net zero

Launch of ChatNetZero at NY Climate Week supports UN Secretary General António Guterres’ mantra of “zero tolerance for net-zero greenwashing.”

ChatNetZero - The world’s first climate target chatbot launches, promising to supercharge net-zero literacy and accountability

Successful citizen science project expands beyond the University of Oxford; channelling student climate concerns into personal action, while boosting data skills and employability

Net Zero Tracker volunteer programme expands to global universities

We launched our latest Net Zero Stocktake with a press conference at the Bonn Intersessional (SB58)

Net Zero Tracker press conference at Bonn Climate Change Conference

Net zero is a corporate norm, with almost two-thirds (65%) of the annual revenue of the world’s largest 2000 companies now covered by a net zero target.

Net zero targets among world's largest companies double, but credibility gaps undermine progress

Many of the world’s largest companies have announced plans to achieve net-zero emissions, but their pledges often rely on misleading or false claims.

The Coming Crackdown on Corporate Greenwashing

A Net Zero Tracker scrutinising corporate climate pledges taps into students’ passion for climate action, teaches them net-zero literacy and builds their employability. Here’s how we work with them

We’ve engaged 250 student volunteers to hold climate emitters to account

An infographic explainer of the UN High Level Expert Group's recommendations on the net zero commitments of companies, regions, cities and financial institutions.

Infographic: Net Zero Guidelines for Non-State Entities

How large-scale text analysis could improve net zero climate action plans and supercharge cities’ decarbonisation efforts.

How AI can help cities get to net-zero

Five scientific principles for operationalising net zero pledges

Net Zero: Origins and Delivery

How the UN 'HLEG' net zero standards promise to raise integrity

Wild West of net zero: there’s a new law in town

Privately-owned firms are quietly undermining the net zero transition through foot dragging and non-disclosure, writes the ECIU's John Lang.

Private companies: The net zero blind spot that's everybody's business

The Net Zero Tracker hosted a side event at COP27, Egypt, with members of the UN High Level Expert Group on Net Zero Commitments of Non State Entities (HLEG).

Balancing net zero integrity and momentum - COP27 side event

Net Zero Tracker analysis shows just 32 of the world’s 100 largest private firms have  set net zero targets, compared with 69 of the world’s 100 largest publicly-listed  companies.

$3.1 trillion USD Net Zero Blind Spot Revealed

Calls to review the UK's net zero target betray a fundamental misunderstanding of the wider benefits of decarbonisation, writes Richard Black.

Ditching net zero would be a colossal act of self-harm

Momentum can be strengthened by net zero targets from local authorities and businesses, writes Richard Black.

Net zero vision can deliver missing climate momentum for Europe

From obscure scientific concept to 91% of the global economy in the blink of an eye.

Net Zero: A short history

Large companies committing to net zero hits critical mass in Europe, but major credibility gaps remain in global national, regional, city and corporate targets.

Net Zero Stocktake 2022

Offsets are not necessarily a no-no — but companies must be transparent in how they use them.

The carbon offset market is falling short. Here’s how to fix it

Setting a net zero target is only the first step to bringing down greenhouse gas emissions.

What net zero targets must include

With net zero targets and climate disclosure requirements exploding, John Lang explains how HR teams can help their firms become ‘net zero ready’.

Nurturing a net zero-ready culture – a defining moment for HR

Targets are improving, but must be strengthened to deliver net zero, post-COP26 analysis shows.

Post-COP26 Snapshot

At the outset of COP26 now that ‘net zero’ has become nearly universal, it must become universally robust, argue ECIU's Richard Black and University of Oxford professor Thomas Hale.

The end of the beginning of net zero

Net zero targets are becoming mainstream in G20 governments and businesses, but more must follow to realise ‘ambition loops’ that can accelerate the transition.

G20 Net Zero Stocktake

The origins of net zero and its role as the defining lens through which governments, businesses, NGOs and other entities are implementing decarbonisation.

Net zero: despite the greenwash, it’s vital for tackling climate change

With so much of the world now covered by net zero pledges, it's time to change the focus to delivery.

Net zero: from ‘tell us’ to ‘show us’

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