Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won't Even Save the Planet)

Product Information

These promised 'nature-based solutions' risk replicating the imperialist models which got us into this crisis in the first place – with countries in the Global South now acting as a carbon sink for pollution from the most industrialised nations.

CCC Chairman, Lord Deben, said: “The UK is a champion in setting new climate goals, now we must be world-beaters in delivering them. By making such outlandish carbon neutrality claims, these corporations are not only misleading consumers and investors, they are opening themselves up to increasing legal and reputational liability. The debate should center on a comprehensive and long-overdue transformation of our exploitative and destructive economic systems. A young woman protests the UK’s target of reaching net zero emissions by 2050, which many believe is too late. But progress on climate and energy policies to shift to newer, cleaner technologies has in some ways slowed in recent years, for example, with the ban on onshore wind farms.There is a need to maintain an explicit distinction between digit zero and letter O, [a] which, because they are both usually represented in English orthography (and indeed most orthographies that use Latin script and Arabic numerals) with a simple circle or oval, have a centuries-long history of being frequently conflated. The British government has embarked on an ambitious and legally-binding climate change target: reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2050.

Despite their net zero pledges and claims of climate leadership, the overwhelming majority of these corporations are simply not delivering the goods they promised. This meant that discussions about policies were limited to those most convenient to politicians: incremental changes to legislation and taxes. But via Spanish it became " cifra" and thence " cifre" in Old French, "cifră" in Romanian and "cipher" in modern English (and " chiffre" in modern French). Also, I took one star out because as usual, the author did not mention anything about the single absolute measure which all can take to help the planet: reproduce less people!The author demonstrates that the people who have recommended and made these decisions have absolutely no idea how much they will cost, no idea of whether they will work or the technologies they are relying on will deliver and worst of all he shows how many of the measures that they have already put in place are actually increasing the amount of CO2 we pump into the atmosphere instead of reducing it. Growing billions of trees would consume vast amounts of water – in some places where people are already thirsty. But when it comes to perhaps the greatest challenge humanity faces, we often show a dangerous lack of critical analysis. But nature-based solutions also include proposals that would transform agriculture into a large-scale emissions-mitigation opportunity associated with the soil carbon market.

Since its general election in October, Poland has moved decisively away from eight years of right-wing populist misrule. That said, most attention in the mid-1990s was focused on increasing energy efficiency and energy switching (such as the UK’s move from coal to gas) and the potential of nuclear energy to deliver large amounts of carbon-free electricity. The impact of climate change hit home for the British public this summer with temperatures rising to 40. In fact, net-zero pledges have come from all parts of the economy, including the meat and dairy industry, aviation, mining, finance, and retail. Currently, the two most efficient biofuels are sugarcane for bioethanol and palm oil for biodiesel – both grown in the tropics.C. It would have been a huge challenge, but the main task at that time would have been to simply stop the accelerating use of fossil fuels while fairly sharing out future emissions. By burning “replaceable” biomass such as wood, crops, and agricultural waste instead of coal in power stations, and then capturing the carbon dioxide from the power station chimney and storing it underground, BECCS could produce electricity at the same time as removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.