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"Today, you don’t have to look far to find companies boasting about their plans
to reach net zero or become carbon neutral. Amazon says it wants to reach net
zero by 2040. Shell says they’ll do it by 2050, as does the airline industry.
And if you listened to the recent presentation by Apple, you might be led to
believe the tech giant is single-handedly going to save the planet. Countries
have also jumped on the trend. For instance, the UK promises to reach net zero
by 2050 despite backtracking on many of its green policies.
Going ‘net zero’ means just what it sounds like. It’s a pledge not to increase
the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. In practice, that means reducing
emissions and ‘cancelling out’ emissions by purchasing carbon offsets or
utilizing a combination of both.
For businesses where reducing emissions to zero seems impractical, using carbon
offsets seems like the next best thing. It sure sounds great on paper, but do
carbon offsets work? Or are they just another greenwashing tactic allowing
corporations to keep on polluting?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
