Sentences with phrase «only achieves carbon neutrality»

Offsetting emissions only achieves carbon neutrality if the investments trigger emission reductions that would not have happened anyway.

Not exact matches

«Cutting trees for fuel is antithetical to the important role that forests play as a sink for CO2 that might otherwise accumulate in the atmosphere,» Schlesinger writes in an article published yesterday in the journal Science, adding later that carbon neutrality «is only achieved» if harvested forests are allowed to regrow more biomass than was lost.

It is the fastest way to achieve emissions reductions and the only way to achieve carbon neutrality.

And if you want to achieve climate neutrality, offsetting the carbon emissions you can't reduce is currently the only way to do so.

I could believe that 10 % of GDP is an upper bound even in this case, because achieving carbon neutrality basically requires a big change to infrastructure but one that only has to be performed once (though it may take years to complete).