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Summary
By striving to create straightforward, universal rules, they flatten more nuanced considerations of which emissions must be reduced, by whom and by when.We are arguing that those companies and countries that are best resourced, have the highest capacity to act, and have the highest responsibility for historical emissions, probably need to go a lot further than the global average, Andy Reisinger, the lead author of the piece, told me.In response to the paper, SBTi told me it welcomes debate, and that robust debate is essential to accelerate corporate ambition and climate action. The group is currently in the process of reviewing its Net-Zero Standard and remains committed to refining our approaches to ensure they are effective in helping corporates to drive the urgent emissions reductions needed to combat the climate crisis.The commentary comes as SBTis reputation is already on shaky ground. Then youre creating a problem for later on in the future, when we desperately need more carbon dioxide removal and havent built up the infrastructure or the accountability systems that would allow that.As you know, theres a lot of controversy about this right now. You write that these generic rules result in a pseudo-club that inadequately challenges its self-selected members while setting prohibitive expectations for those with less than average capacity. If thats what were achieving and then theres a large number of companies that cant possibly, under their current capacity, set science-based targets because they simply dont have the resources then collectively, we will fail.