An 8 in 10,000 Climate Net Zero — Animals, Wildlife and Food Security Along the Way

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Core Audit
Questions

1

What is being protected: climate, food, wildlife, or all three?

Three sets of interests — climate, food, wildlife — don't automatically align. The question forces the trade-off into view; assuming alignment is the framework's most common error.
2

What impacts are measured, modelled, or assumed?

Direct measurement, statistical inference, and scenario assumption have different evidentiary weights. The catalog's expansion details flag which kind each item depends on.
3

What land, materials, and infrastructure are required?

Land footprints, mineral demand, and grid infrastructure all scale with renewable deployment. The first three sections of the catalog name where these requirements land.
4

What trade-offs affect farming, affordability, and biodiversity?

Trade-offs are not optional. The audit asks which ones are present, who carries them, and over what timeframe — the kind of audit the emissions framing alone won't run.
5

What policy claim is actually justified?

The framework's signature question. Section 4 of the catalog names five common overclaims and shows what each is actually entitled to support — usually less than its headline suggests.

Net Zero pathways should be audited not only for emissions claims, but also for wildlife impacts, food-system resilience, and the real trade-offs faced by households and producers.