I've never had the time/inclination to actually look into this, but I've often wondered how, say, the UK thinks that it might, one day, achieve "net zero" ('carbon emissions').
So long as human beings exist, and even if all domestic/industrial etc. carbon emissions could be eliminated (obviously impossible), there will always be at least some 'carbon emissions', since (an increasing number of) live human beings constantly breathe out CO2 (not to mention even more other animal life doing the same).
What, I therefore wonder, is it intended will be on the other side of the equation, 'to cancel' those inevitable emissions and thereby reduce the 'net' to zero - is it just a matter of 'planting trees' (and locking up carbon in concrete etc!), or are there other things?
Kind Regards, John
So long as human beings exist, and even if all domestic/industrial etc. carbon emissions could be eliminated (obviously impossible), there will always be at least some 'carbon emissions', since (an increasing number of) live human beings constantly breathe out CO2 (not to mention even more other animal life doing the same).
What, I therefore wonder, is it intended will be on the other side of the equation, 'to cancel' those inevitable emissions and thereby reduce the 'net' to zero - is it just a matter of 'planting trees' (and locking up carbon in concrete etc!), or are there other things?
Kind Regards, John