University of Exeter: Net zero policies are 'emperor's new clothes', academics warn
India, Oct. 23 -- Dr James Dyke, Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, criticised net zero targets as a "great idea in principle" but which "help perpetuate a belief in technological salvation and diminish the sense of urgency surrounding the need to curb emissions now".The excoriating critique is published in Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis, a new essay volume on the climate crisis featuring prominent social scientists and humanities scholars from around the world, co-edited by the University of Exeter Business School's Professor Steffen Boehm. In a chapter entitled 'Why net zero policies do more harm than good', Dr Dyke and his co-authors Dr Wolfgang Knorr and Professor Sir Robert Watson ar...
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