{"id":637329,"date":"2022-10-25T07:26:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T05:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=637329"},"modified":"2022-10-25T07:26:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T05:26:27","slug":"business-talk-ey-parthenons-paul-oflaherty-breaks-down-the-journey-to-net-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/637329\/business-talk-ey-parthenons-paul-oflaherty-breaks-down-the-journey-to-net-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 EY Parthenon\u2019s Paul O\u2019Flaherty breaks down the journey to net zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul O\u2019Flaherty is the EY &#8211; Parthenon Africa Leader and a qualified Charted Accountant.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining EY &#8211; Parthenon, he held several CEO and CFO roles at listed companies, and his core expertise includes project management, mergers and acquisitions, turnarounds, and restructurings.<\/p>\n<p>He has extensive industry experience in sectors such as mining, infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, trading, steel manufacturing, and financial services.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, O\u2019Flaherty explains what net zero is and outlines South Africa\u2019s attitude towards this concept.<\/p>\n<p>He then discusses how net zero efforts are being progressed globally and unpacks the differences between the terms \u201ccarbon neutral\u201d and \u201cnet zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Flaherty concludes by outlining what companies should focus on when creating their net zero plans.<\/p>\n<p>The interview with Paul O\u2019Flaherty can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jdA1d6UndA4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EY- Parthenon Africa Leader Paul O\u2019Flaherty explains what net zero is and why it is important. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":637363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[17475,17563],"class_list":["post-637329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-ey-sustainability","tag-paul-oflaherty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637371,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637329\/revisions\/637371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}