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Climate primer: Why is everyone talking about ‘net zero’?

Climate primer: Why is everyone talking about ‘net zero’?

As the Paris Agreement marks its fifth anniversary, a U.N-backed global campaign to slash climate-changing emissions has added new high-profile members to its ranks, including high-street fashion retailer Primark and consumer electronics giant Sony. The "Race to Zero", launched on World Environment Day in June, brings together businesses, cities and other organisations that aim by around mid-century to cut their planet-heating emissions to net zero - meaning they produce no more emissions than they can offset through measures such as planting trees. As a "Climate Ambition Summit" got underway on Saturday, the U.N. climate body said members of the Race to…
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