Carbon Neutrality
- August 19, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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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’.