To avoid the worst consequences of climate change, the world must balance carbon emissions with carbon stocks by 2050. But even if we reach the goal, a lot depends on how much we release in the meantime. Ten years ago, the term "net zero" was arcane jargon. Today, it is a key target in the fight against climate change and a well-known point of discussion around the world.<\/p>\n
The concept is simple. In words\u00a0Intergovernmental<\/span> Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)<\/a>\u00a0: "Net zero emissions of carbon dioxide (CO\u00a02<\/sub>\u00a0) are achieved when anthropogenic CO2 emissions are globally balanced by anthropogenic CO removal\u00a02<\/sub> during a certain period. (James Dinneen, more at newscientist.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To avoid the worst effects of climate change, the world needs to balance carbon emissions with carbon stocks by 2050. But even if we achieve the goal, much depends on how much we emit in the meantime. A decade ago, the term \u201cnet zero\u201d was arcane jargon. Today, it is a key goal in the fight against climate change and a familiar talking point around the world. The concept [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-udrzatelnost_uhlikova-neutralita"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}