Net zero articles
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We must ramp up climate action to hit net zero target
There is nothing more important than our environment. My party, campaigners and scientists across the globe have been saying so for years in spite of governments the world over refusing for decades to accept they had to treat the crisis with the urgency it deserves. This must be the turning point and the moment we accelerate the action we are taking to make Scotland net zero. Here and across the UK opportunities have been missed and action delayed to the point that it is simply not possible to...
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Column: Varied mobility options on isles’ ‘net-zero’ road
Hawaii became the first state in the country to set an ambitious goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2045 when Gov. David Ige passed House Bill 623 in 2015. Today, nearly 10 years later, we’re in the midst of the clean energy transformation, with breakthrough climate technology and a multitude of eco-friendly, energy-efficient vehicles on our roads.
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Net Zero CO2 Emissions: A Damaging and Totally Unnecessary Goal
The goal of reaching “Net Zero” global anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide sounds overwhelmingly difficult. While humanity continues producing CO2 at increasing rates (with a temporary pause during COVID), how can we ever reach the point where these emissions start to fall, let alone reach zero by 2050 or 2060? What isn’t being discussed (as […]