COP27: Piecemeal approach keeps us on the highway to climate hell

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This week the Ship It Zero campaign berated retail giant Walmart for its failure to join in with emissions abatement measures that would ultimately reduce the company’s climate footprint.

Ship It Zero is a campaign launched by US west coast environmental organisations Stand.earth and Pacific Environment. The Loadstar caught up with Pacific Environment’s campaign director, Madeline Rose, who is attending COP27 in Egypt, to ask why the group had targeted Walmart specifically.

“It has a unique responsibility,” said Ms Rose. “Walmart is ...