The official story
How the corpus engages with the received account of net-zero
What is commonly said
The net-zero target is a scientifically-driven, neutral, and technically sound goal that is being hindered by minor implementation issues.
Flagged because 3 separate source documents push back on this account.
What the documents show
“The prescription, however, repackages that ground as a financial figure”
“The logical leap from "CO₂ correlates with warming" to "net-zero by 2050 via carbon markets" has a documentable inflection point that is political, not scientific”
“"Net-zero is quickly becoming a useless concept: every time it is brought into play to justify the continued financing of carbon-emitting projects, it loses meaning."”
Wolfgang Kuhn · Title and Executive Summary
“Net-zero policies in the West are therefore **simultaneously climate policy and de-facto industrial subsidy for Chinese manufacturing**”
“Kontoleon: "lemons market"”
West, Börner, Sills and Kontoleon · CANOPTICON Second-Pass Stress-Test: The Net-Zero / Carbon-Finance Architecture
“The net-zero architecture's use of production-based accounting is therefore not a neutral technical choice — it structurally favors wealthy consuming nations”
“**This is a major steelmanned skeptical finding**: the net-zero architecture's emissions arithmetic is load-bearing on technologies that do not yet work at scale”
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