Wouldn’t our entire planet need to be covered in trees for this to even be close to realistic?
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Perhaps you have a misunderstanding of what net-zero means?
These companies are not saying that any emissions they have previously produced will be captured.
They are saying that they will make their business as low carbon as possible, so that they don’t continue adding to the problem. What’s more, anything that they can’t completely decarbonise, will be offset by some sort of equivalent financial investment into helping others decarbonise.
A lot of the journey to net zero will happen automatically for these companies. For many companies, emissions boil down to electricity use and transport. In many countries electricity generation is producing far less emissions than before (and is continuing to decrease each year). Also, many countries plan to ban the sale of petrol cars in the near future, too. That doesn’t leave much for the companies to change.
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