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Explaining the concept of carbon neutrality, describe the measures taken by carbon positive and negative nations.

  • UPSC 2021, 2016
  • Environmental Geography

Carbon neutrality is the condition in which anthropogenic CO₂ emissions of a country, firm or activity are balanced by anthropogenic CO₂ removals over a stated period (IPCC AR6). Net emissions = emissions − (sink uptake + engineered removals + offsets) = 0.

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  • The Concept
  • Three carbon states
  • How neutrality is reached
  • Measures by Carbon-Negative Nations
  • Measures by Carbon-Positive Nations
  • Critical Appraisal

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