Carbon Neutrality

Subject – Environment

Context – India can do more, hints climate official.

Concept –

Climate neutrality is achieved when a country’s emissions are balanced by absorptions and removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. It is also expressed as a state of net-zero emissions.
Net zero or carbon neutrality is when more carbon is sucked out from the atmosphere or prevented from being emitted than what a country emits and is critical to ensuring that the planet does not heat up an additional half a degree by 2100.
Bhutan and Suriname are the only carbon neutral countries in the world.

Countries that have announced net-zero Targets (Some Examples):

The European Union has a plan, called “Fit for 55”, to deliver the carbon neutrality goal.
China also announced that it would become net-zero by the year 2060 and that it would not allow its emissions to peak beyond what they are in 2030.
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) has released its Net Zero Emissions (NZE) Roadmap – named ‘Net Zero by 2050’.