To save the planet, first fix the language
Corporate gibberish is tedious, but baffling climate change words are actively harmful
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Pilita Clark
Recently, the United Nations made an announcement that prompted a biting put-down from a climate journalist named Megan Darby.
"Ban the UN from naming things. I'm serious," she wrote, after the launch of the anti-greenwashing unit that the UN called the "High Level Expert Group on the Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities", or HLEG for short.