A new report lays out a detailed set of guidelines to ensure businesses’ net-zero claims are credible. A company with a legitimate claim to net-zero, the report said, shouldn’t build or invest in new fossil fuels, buy cheap carbon credits “instead of immediately cutting their own emissions,” or lobby against ambitious policies to address the climate crisis.

Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo launched a partnership this week to coordinate conservation efforts. The countries have a combined 1.8 billion acres of forests that serve as a huge carbon sink for the planet — a fact that could be leveraged to negotiate, for example, conservation finance from private investors or wealthy countries.