Comment on Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target
18107@aussie.zone 3 weeks agoFor this specific case it means net zero carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Plastic isn’t carbon in the atmosphere, so it isn’t included in these figures.
Net zero is just the first step anyway. Once we reach net zero, we still need to work really hard to get to actual zero, then we still need to find a way to be significantly carbon negative if we want to try to slow the worsening rate of climate related disasters.
Hopefully, somewhere in that process, oil products will become non-viable.
Plastic isn’t carbon in the atmosphere, so it isn’t included in these figures.
Sure is. Either by fire or by sun. Not yet, but in the same way that wood is onky temporary bound CO². With the difference that plastic is made from oil, not from already circulating C.
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Just so you know, Lemmy actually supports subscript. Surround text with single tildes. CO~2~ gives CO~2~.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Actual zero is impossible. “Actual net zero” is what we should aim for (climate accounting with offsets can get a bit freaky)
18107@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
That’s a much better way of phrasing it.
The current “net zero” targets fall a long way short of necessary, but I wasn’t sure of a term for the correct target.