Stagnation is the word of the day for operator conglomerate Liberty Global, which has recently published its annual sustainability report for 2023, marking the first year of its People Planet Progress strategy. Naturally, stagnation is not the first impression from combing the report. Lodged in between updates on diversity and governance objectives, Liberty Global boasts of reducing carbon emissions by 28% since 2019 for scope 1 and scope 2, and has a carbon neutral target for 2030. However, this ignores a bump in the road in Liberty Global’s sustainability journey. Scope 1 and 2 emissions are down from 2019 and from 2022, but they are slightly higher combined than emissions reported in 2021. Throughout the previous five years, scope 1…