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Saving Our Planet: Net-Zero Carbon Emission Bernice Ho
Imagine not being able to go out most of the time due to oppressive heat waves. Would you be annoyed, depressed, or perhaps frustrated? We are going to experience this if we don’t make a change in our behaviour now! Recognising this urgency: over fifty countries, including the world’s largest emitters, China and the United States, have communicated the “net-zero emissions targets,”. On top of that, hundreds more regions, cities and businesses have set targets of their own.
We hope for a better world in the future so that our next generation can have a healthy and sustainable living. This article explains the goal of balancing between the greenhouse gases put into the atmosphere and those taken out as well as the science behind it.
