Carbon Net-Zero Subject – Environment Context – Race to “net zero” has become a rallying point for leaders and civil society Concept – Net zero is not part of the Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, adopted in 2015. It emerged as a concept in IPCC’s 2018 special report “Global Warming […]

Subject: Environment Context: Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised China would be carbon net-zero by 2060 Concept: Net-zero is a state in which a country’s emissions are compensated by absorptions and removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Absorption can be increased by creating more carbon sinks such as forests, while removal involves application of […]