{"id":123493,"date":"2021-08-04T20:36:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=123493"},"modified":"2021-08-11T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T09:30:48","slug":"is-net-zero-emission-concept-zeroing-in-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/is-net-zero-emission-concept-zeroing-in-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Is net zero emission concept zeroing in on Climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/blog\/climate-change\/is-net-zero-concept-zeroing-in-on-climate-change-a-sustainable-consumption-critique-78252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Down to Earth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flaws with the net-zero concept<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">world has seen a massive surge in voluntary commitment to achieve net-zero emission targets<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but there are inherent problems with the net-zero concept. Listing few such problems and a way forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is net zero concept?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Net zero refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gas produced and the amount of GHG removed from the atmosphere.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The present market based arrangements are based on Net zero concept which is <strong>more focused on Supply side mechanism<\/strong> rather than Demand side reduction which is leading to Net increase in emission rather than reduction in GHG.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Issues with Net Zero Concept\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>More focussed on supply-side<\/strong>: Critiques argue that net zero concept exclusively relies on nature based solutions and technological solutions for carbon removal and sequestration. Thus it discourages solutions based on demand side reduction.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Promotes dependence on costly tech solutions<\/strong>: Net zero also promotes strategy of \u201cBurn Now Pay Latter strategy\u201d which promotes our dependence on costly technological solution rather than affordable demand reduction strategies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Net zero strategy <strong>increases our vulnerability<\/strong> by postponing actual reduction.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Fails to address the root cause<\/strong> of climate crisis and does not include ways to reduce the increasing demand of goods and services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Promotes the idea of Growthism<\/strong> which means economic growth ensures care for environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Benefits only the large corporations<\/strong> through creation of Multibillion Dollar market by introducing mechanism of Carbon Offset.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><strong>Way forward\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Changing our lifestyles<\/strong> <strong>to reduce consumption demand<\/strong>: The ever-increasing demand for resources and energy-intensive lifestyles would make it next to impossible for technological fixes to reduce carbon emissions to maintain a balance towards the net-zero world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Reducing materialism<\/strong>: We need to spread the idea that acquiring more and more things doesn&#8217;t translate into well-being. Both are not interrelated after one has secured means of a good life.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Balancing economic aspirations with environmental sustainability<\/strong>: Shift towards alternative economic model which balances environmental sustainability with economic growth.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A slow and sustained change in socio-cultural priorities and notions of good life, along with necessary infrastructural changes to support that, is the only way forward to realise a sustainable and just world for all.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #f7f2f2;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Also Read<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/leveraging-traditional-lo-tech-innovations-to-fight-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leveraging traditional lo-tech innovations to fight climate change<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Down to Earth Relevance: Flaws with the net-zero concept Synopsis: The\u00a0world has seen a massive surge in voluntary commitment to achieve net-zero emission targets but there are inherent problems with the net-zero concept. Listing few such problems and a way forward. What is net zero concept? Net zero refers to the balance between the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/is-net-zero-emission-concept-zeroing-in-on-climate-change\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is net zero emission concept zeroing in on Climate change?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[408,216,5160,8827,8650],"class_list":["post-123493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-climate-change","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-net-zero-emissions","tag-net-zero-strategy","tag-sustainability","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700777329,"cached_date":1704834158},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}