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Climateaction.org is a website established in 2003 with the explicit purpose of advocating for net zero solutions to fight climate change. Climate Action claims to work with CEOS and investors to create sustainable solutions and is currently headquartered in London.

History
While ICANN records show the website was registered in 2003, the group was officially founded in 2007 by Nick Henry. Until 2020, Henry was also the co-founder and director for the Henley Media Group, which provides help with marketing events and publishing to clients such as Shell and BP.

Climate Action has hosted an annual Sustainable Innovation Forum during the United Nation's Climate Change Conference (COP). After the Paris attack in 2015, Nick Henry went on record saying that the conference would continue, remarking to Today Italy: "Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development of France, and Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC, have already confirmed that COP21 will proceed as planned and we support them in the decision not to let terrorism derail what will be one of the most important environmental conferences of our lives."

Net Zero Controversy
Over the years, many critics have argued that the rhetoric of "Net Zero" has been used to decrease urgency in solutions to help mitigate climate change. As academics, James Dyke, Robert Watson, and Wolfgang Knorr wrote in The Conversation: "the idea of net zero has licensed a recklessly cavalier “burn now, pay later” approach which has seen carbon emissions continue to soar. It has also hastened the destruction of the natural world by increasing deforestation today, and greatly increases the risk of further devastation in the future."