Net–Zero Transition PHOTOGRAPHS AND TEXT BY SIMONE TRAMONTE — PHOTOGRAPHER
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the most severe economic recession in recent years. This crisis, however, can be leveraged into an unprecedented opportunity to transition towards a more sustainable future. Earth is warming rapidly as a consequence of greenhouse gases that are being released into the atmosphere by human activity at the highest levels of any time in the last 800,000 years. The Paris Agreement, signed by 195 countries, seeks to cap global warming at 1.5 °C in order to keep the catastrophic consequences of global warming to a minimum. To reach this goal, the international community must eliminate emissions from billions of human activities around the world. Iceland, an isolated island in the harsh climate of the North Atlantic, devastated by
Iceland has successfully transformed its economy by adopting sustainable models of production and consumption the 2008 financial crisis, has successfully transformed its economy by adopting sustainable models of production and consumption. Within a few decades, the country has reduced its dependence on fossil
