Thread by @elleprovocateur

This is a learning thread.

A lesson in #language, "purpose" & #NewPower.

From inception, #NetZero was devised as the language to garner uptake/demand from citizenry while simultaneously building a framework to propel #CarbonMarkets, #CCS technology, #NETs, & #nuclear.

Note the panel. Nicole Schwab as moderator (daughter of Klaus Schwab), #naturebasedsolutions, 1TDOTorg, #Gates, #Carney (#ImpactInvesting), Nazareth (regulation), & Bill Winters, chair, Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary #CarbonMarkets.

"#NewPower – The ability to harness the connected crowd to get what you want" – Jeremy Heimans, Purpose/Avaaz/Verifed

Launched Sept 2020 by Carney, the taskforce includes #BlackRock #BP #Saleforce #Shell #Unilever #GoldmanSachs #NaturalCapital Partners:

iif.com/tsvcm

Oct 2018: #XR launched w/ 3 demands effectively framing the crisis. #2: "... Government must enact legally binding policy measures to reduce carbon emissions to #netzero by 2025..."

Within weeks XR/Climate Mobilization had XR chapters across globe:

rebellion.global

Jump forward to March 2021. Corporate solutions - yrs/decades in the making, are being rolled out. Whole corporate power is actually consolidating, this is framed as concession to #climatestrikes, #protests, #inequality, & societal ills created by capitalism.

#NetZero

March 9, 2021: "Oil Giant Bets Big On Expected $2 Trillion #CarbonCapture Market"

"The transition to a low-carbon economy envisions reducing the amount of #fossilfuel use, not eliminating it. Global demand for oil & gas will continue for decades..."

forbes.com/sites/daneberh…

Jan 2021: "Hundreds of billions' needs to move to firms combating carbon emissions... a voluntary #carbonmarket to enable corporations to reach #NetZero emissions... this will need to scale at least 15 times, & potentially 160 times, its current level."

cnbc.com/2021/01/26/win…

Initiatives such as 1T.org, coupled w/ branded terms
#NaturalClimateSolutions & #naturebasedsolutions are strategic - to "increase public acceptance of" #CarbonMarkets & #CCS / #NETs (Breakthrough #Energy / Ventures / Gates et. al:

breakthroughenergy.org