Guest blog: Get net zero right: A how-to guide
The UN High Level Champions and Oxford Net Zero have designed a toolkit to help us all better identify credible net zero commitments and those that miss the mark. By Nigel Topping and Gonzalo Munoz Scientists have demonstrated that we must get our world to a state of net zero emissions as soon as possible (and by 2050 at the absolute latest) in order to limit the worst effects of climate change. Net zero is defined by the IPCC , the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change, as: “W hen anthropogenic CO2 emissions are balanced globally by anthropogenic CO2 removals over a specified period .” Simply put, at a global level we need to balance the amount of emissions we put into the atmosphere with the amount we take out. What this means in practice — and how the term net zero has been used — has been subject to fierce debate and contention as it has grown in popularity over the last decade. There has ...
