The Tech-Giants are backing away. Microsoft and Google have given up. They’re not bragging about their carbon neutrality anymore. Not now that their emissions have increased 29% and 50% respectively in the last four or five years.

Over 500 companies pledged to get to net zero by 2040, but 96% of them are failing to stay on track. The truth is that if net zero technologies were cheap and useful, and the CEOs ever cared about the planet, they wouldn’t be abandoning them. But they are, reports Jo Nova. ⁽¹⁾