In Net Zero, Mr Phantom stages climate diplomacy as political theatre, complete with curtains, cameras, applause and anonymous figures of authority. At the centre, two officials shake hands over signed documents while an industrial landscape burns behind them. The contrast exposes the uncomfortable divide between public declarations of environmental responsibility and the consequences unfolding beyond the stage. Repeated environmental symbols hover above the destruction like empty emblems of virtue, while the faceless participants suggest a system in which responsibility is shared, obscured and ultimately difficult to locate. Net Zero asks whether ambitious targets hold any value when spectacle and rhetoric are allowed to substitute for meaningful change.
