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From corporate net-zero pledges to credible climate action

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Ramana Gudipudi *
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Luís Costa
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Matthew Agarwala
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Felix Creutzig
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Jürgen P. Kropp
DOI:10.1038/s41893-026-01908-6delete
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Corporate net-zero pledges have proliferated, yet evidence increasingly suggests that most fall short of real-world impacts. This reflects not a lack of ambition but a lack of scientific foundations needed to ensure credibility and integrity in corporate climate action. This uncertainty underpins a trillion-dollar question: how capital and policy mechanisms can be directed towards actions that genuinely reduce emissions. A scientific infrastructure built around four interconnected research frontiers can close this gap, making corporate climate commitments credible, comparable and policy-relevant at scale. This could redirect trillions of dollars in investments towards genuine climate action. Although corporate net-zero pledges have become popular, evidence suggests they are not having real-world impacts, most probably because they lack a scientific foundation to ensure credibility and integrity. This Perspective presents a scientific framework to address the issue.

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