Carbon Neutrality Subject – Environment Context – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on multiple occasions, has reiterated that the union territory of Ladakh would be developed as a climate neutral region. Concept – Carbon neutrality, in theory, is the when the sum of all the greenhouse gases put into and take out of the […]

    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 […]

Subject: Environment Context: Ladakh, Leh and Kargil region will be developed and declared to be a carbon neutral region Concept: Carbon neutrality means every ton of anthropogenic CO2 emitted is compensated with an equivalent amount of CO2 removed, according to World Resources Institute. In order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, carbon neutrality by […]