What does net zero actually mean and how will it change our lives? | ABC News

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[@diegomontoya8095]

Are we going to stop shipping our plastic garbage to Indonesia to be thrown into the ocean?

[@60-second-HACKS]

How about a bit of honesty. The US has twice the emissions of China on a per capita basis. China is investing double (at least) the US commitment in clean energy technologies. Your coloring is extremely unfair.

[@thatsinteresting7041]

Shame on our leaders. Can't even do the bare minimum.

[@karentorkar8256]

Leaders? It's what individuals do that ultimately matters. Personal responsibility.

[@shaunsocha421]

@@karentorkar8256 hahahahahahahaha ok boomer

[@davidnorris166]

@@karentorkar8256 no Karen. Individualism is a false "solution". Governments, regulation,and legislation is critical. We can help to a small degree by voting and campaigning and living greener lives. But governments hold the real power.

[@karentorkar8256]

@@shaunsocha421 not giving birth to the likes of you will be a big saving in resources.

[@resolecca]

@@karentorkar8256 individual action don't hurt but they certainly don't help getting us to the level we need to be only big buissness can do that, and big business will only do that if forced to by the government. So I ask you where is the personal responsibility of big business and governments?? As usual no where to be seen, so please unless your a corporation or run a corporation you may take several seats and sit down and keep quiet

[@ljt3084]

Hearing an Australian journalist say, biggest emitter is China is like watching a drug dealer blame the addict for being an addict.. Australia could stop selling China the coal of course, but then scotty from marketing would have to go back to selling second hand cars..

[@chenwang1492]

China has the largest population base in the world,

[@warbledurbler7905]

Scotty from marketing raving on about how undiscovered technology will play a part in saving us from climate change is just a pathetic joke in the poorest taste.

[@robbphillips2845]

It means rich megamillionairs make money on subsidies from poorer hard working tax payers.

[@fungi5923]

Scotty from Marketing needs to go

[@veganaise2383]

Thats right! 😆😆😆

[@draganakrapovic7588]

Asap

[@resolecca]

FACTS

[@wytrose4602]

All of the distraction is coming from failed infastructure. Private Corperation fail to make improvements. Not the weather. We were all lockdown and nothing happened. It barely made a difference.

[@TheSapphire51]

This reminds me of "Make Poverty History" It did not succeed and its not disassociated from the problem of climate change. I'm sick of slogans and the same old world order.

[@terrymoore861]

No need to worry about forests now. COP 26 has agreed that no forests to be cut down from 2030. There may be a huge increase in destruction until 31st December 2029 releasing the stored carbon sink held by that forest and there will be less forest to soak up the CO2 until then. The promise to protect world forest in 2014 at the New York COP, appears to have failed. Still any new forest planted will start to sequester the CO2 and produce oxygen. After all, to sequester enough CO2 to replace the carbon in a destroyed forest will only take aboiut 300 years and will not be 100% efficient until the forest has finished the replacement of the original trees. Depending on the tree species, very little CO2 is absorbed until the tree reaches its maximum girth so very little is added to the carbon sink in the new forested area!

[@Who-vt9oh]

The United States has more than double the per capita carbon emissions than China. If the US's per capita carbon emissions were the same as China's, our total emissions would go down by more than 2.5 billion tons per year.

[@claudebujold4959]

the only zero that we will get is the promised of the politicians!

[@abdulmohamedconteh8295]

It's clear indication that fossil fuel and timber exporting causes 😳 great harm in our climate. Africa will be safe and more safer if only our timber is reserved 🙏

[@5thribroarn304]

Timber should be everywhere!! Plant Trees today!!

[@Umbra_TuSlayer]

Business can never fix this as they don't have the monetary power, that's why we have governments...

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

This video was doing welll until the last couple of guests. But I will give one thing: Green hydrogen is a good opportunity to reduce emissions for the many existing uses for hydrogen, and perhaps other new ones. But as an energy carrier, it's largely a non-starter.

[@ledpup]

Net zero is code for "do nothing"

[@BobQuigley]

Better title maybe? What does net zero mean and what each of us are willing to do to get there

[@swamphead6578]

Australia, get your shit together

[@spartanra8418]

Hahah business council of Australia outing themselves “the discussion we have been having in the past is whether we should” “do the right thing”

[@airlogic]

Stan Grant! Australia's own version of Orange Man Bad.......

[@PeterMsk2023]

From a global perspective, replacing all fossil fuel power plants with large, medium and small nuclear power plants seems to be an ideal solution to the problem of global warming, in the long term. However, the international community still faces the question of how to dispose of nuclear waste - hoard it underground or push it into outer space?

[@swamphead6578]

We're probably a looooong way from sending it to space, launches have to become cheaper and safer. Gotta build massive tombs for the waste until space travel is izi

[@PeterMsk2023]

@@swamphead6578 Yes, you’re right. However, to bury nuclear waste in the ground has to consider that it may become blackmail material for rogue states or terrorists.

[@swamphead6578]

@@PeterMsk2023 True that. If you're interested in the subject, there's a really good documentary on the future of nuclear waste and the worlds biggest facility for it. It's called Into Eternity. Pretty daunting stuff

[@resolecca]

Nuclear is the worst 🤬king idea ever all its doing is creating a much worse problem for future generations to deal with, yall might not care about that but I do.

[@LureThosePixels]

Failure of successive LNP governments. The worst thing for this country. We should have led the way with innovation and tech from CSIRO, but twenty years ago not now.

[@gragraw6184]

dear dr adi . you must be a proctologist . i love your point that because something is dangerous means that you should do it more .

[@shiredaddy]

BCA has spent a lot of money and time sinking every climate change action in the past twenty years. Yeah they are interested in honest conversation. Just Like big tobacco

[@idiottrumpretrun3642]

It means obeying orders from z british n usa regimes

[@LudiCrust.]

The US has reduced coal using natural gas through fracking which has half the emissions coal has. They’re at 1992 levels and have reduced usage more than the next 10 countries combined.

[@isakjohansson7134]

Cool pyramid scheme

[@debrawalker4642]

Dreamers!

[@j.davidbogue3961]

Time for Generation 4 Nuclear, and Solar. Throw in large scale desalination projects to expand our agricultural production.

[@fungi5923]

Image a gondola ride down a canal with a few waterfront hotels on the way

[@fungi5923]

Imagine the bio fuel potential

[@resolecca]

@J. If solar YES nuclear ABSOLUTELY NOT is like going out of the frying pan into hell 👎🏼👎🏼🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

[@5thribroarn304]

NET ZERO = ZERO CARBON. ZERO CARBON = ZERO LIFE.

[@distractos]

Net zero means no new introduction of greenhouse gases to our atmosphere. It doesn't mean zero carbon

[@Taeviel]

15:33 god damn this guy is annoying. Yes let’s shame people for not taking a flight. That’ll get us to a net zero world.

[@nobordersnowelfare7285]

If pollution is so bad, why do we have immigration?

[@crankykransky2979]

Because we live in a liberal democracy