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What is net zero?

Josh Burke, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

30 April 2019 • 7 min read

What does 'net-zero' mean and what are the challenges - from technological to moral - to achieving it? Josh Burke at LSE's Grantham Research Institute sets out some of the issues

In order to keep the rise in global mean temperatures 'well below 2°C' above pre-industrial levels and to try to limit global warming to 1.5°C, the Paris Agreement commits to net-zero emissions globally...

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