What the offsets row at the SBTi means for green business

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FOUR32's Benet Northcote looks at the implications of the row engulfing the Science Based Targets initiative for firms committed to decarbonisation

The recent row engulfing the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) around the use of corporate offsets in Scope 3 emissions has exposed some of the tensions at the heart of the environmental movement....

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