In 2021, the UK Government set the world’s most ambitious climate change target - to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. This would bring the UK more than three quarters of the way to net zero by 2050. Here Samir Jaber, content writer at materials platform, Matmatch, argues that the most efficient way to achieve carbon neutrality is with overall carbon reduction per process or product.
Carbon neutrality can only be achieved via a balance between emitting carbon and absorbing carbon from the atmosphere in carbon sinks, which include any system that absorbs more carbon than it emits. The main natural carbon sinks are soil, forests and oceans. According to recent estimates, natural sinks remove between 9.5 and 11 gigatons of…
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