carbon neutral
pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral;a carbon-neutral brewery.
Origin of carbon neutral
1Other words from carbon neutral
- carbon neutrality, noun
- See also carbon credit, carbon offsetting.
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How to use carbon neutral in a sentence
Danish shipping giant Maersk announced in August that it would be launching the first of eight cargo container vessels running on carbon neutral methanol fuel in 2024.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles Are Cutting Emissions. Will Big Ships Do It Too? | Aryn Baker/Glasgow, Scotland | November 11, 2021 | TimeAll of our products are plastic-free and made from recycled materials or fast-growing bamboo, and we just launched global carbon neutral shipping.
The irreverent toilet paper startup that cleaned up during the pandemic lockdown | Rachel King | October 18, 2020 | FortuneGoing carbon neutral means that China would remove the same amount of carbon it’s emitting into the atmosphere to achieve net-zero carbon emissions.
China’s commitment to become carbon neutral by 2060, explained | Lili Pike | September 25, 2020 | VoxAl Gore, however, sold his Current TV channel to Al Jazeera, which is funded by the royal family of famously carbon neutral Qatar.
Up To A Point: What We Really Need Is a Nobel War Prize | P. J. O’Rourke | October 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“When someone has a cocktail that person becomes carbon neutral,” he laughs.
Google, for one, has gotten plenty of press about its four-year-old ambition to become a carbon-neutral company.
Winds of Change: Who's Doing What in Wind? | Daily Beast Promotions | February 7, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
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