Carbon neutrality: what to learn from the new IEA report?

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2021
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Journal Article
Summary While more and more countries are announcing their carbon neutrality objectives, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has just unveiled the trajectories that would make it possible to reach, or not, this objective at the global level, by 2050. What are the main findings of these new forecasts, made at the request of the Presidency of the COP26, which will be held in November 2021 in Glasgow? Carbon neutrality" to reduce and absorb GHG emissions The fight against global warming is based on reducing GHG emissions (primarily CO2) through a massive reduction in the consumption of carbon-based energy (coal, oil and gas). It is also based on the development of carbon sinks, with an increase in the storage capacity of forests and soils, as well as on the deployment of CO2 capture and storage technologies. The combination of these two actions should make it possible to achieve "zero net emissions" (carbon neutrality), by reducing GHG emissions generated by human activity to the level at which they are "removed" from the atmosphere and absorbed by sinks.
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The Conversation France
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