Rick Crawford
Climate change is the greatest threat to fisheries, and many other species survival around the world, and according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), worldwide global emissions will need to be cut 55% by 2030 and carbon neutral by 2050. So, what does it mean to go carbon neutral?
In order to go carbon neutral, businesses, industries and countries need to first measure their carbon footprint so that they can create a baseline to measure their progress towards net zero emissions. For example, once you have measured you carbon footprint, the idea is that you balance the amount of mtCO2e (greenhouse gas emissions) released through your business operations and supply chain with an equivalent amount that is either sequestered or offset with carbon credits. Here’s a definition from the World Resources Institute blog:
World Resources Institute
While the climate crisis is certainly a threat to our planet, climate change is also the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st Century, and although the fossil fuel industry, the plastic industry, utility companies and their lobbyists will fight tooth and nail to prevent businesses, industries and countries from going carbon neutral, the market has already chosen a clean renewable energy future as renewable energy surpassed coal for the first time in US history and Scotland just produced enough wind energy to power all its homes twice over. Additionally, we already know that forests and soils are the quickest and cheapest way to sequester carbon out of the atmosphere and massive reforestation efforts are underway, and other land use climate change solutions like regenerative agriculture, which will help to significantly slow climate change.
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