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Climate science

a state in which greenhouse gas emissions released are balanced by removals, with rules about timing, offsets and fairness shaping what counts.

In climate science, net zero refers to a state in which greenhouse gas emissions released are balanced by removals, with rules about timing, offsets and fairness shaping what counts. This meaning comes from Fankhauser (2021) in Nature Climate Change.[1]

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Fankhauser, S., Smith, S. M., Allen, M., Axelsson, K., Hale, T., Hepburn, C., Kendall, J. M., Khosla, R., Lezaun, J., Mitchell-Larson, E., Obersteiner, M., Rajamani, L., Rickaby, R., Seddon, N., & Wetzer, T. (2021). The meaning of net zero and how to get it right. Nature Climate Change, 12(1), 15-21. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01245-w

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