Zero Emissions Day 2022
With heatwaves soaring across the entire United States, our climate is consistently a conversation at the forefront of our minds. We are constantly looking for ways as individuals and organizations to effectively combat the climate crisis. Zero emissions refers to engines, motors, and other energy sources the emit waste that pollute the environment and/or climate.
While we work as individuals to combat the climate crisis, it is also important for national actors to monitor and regulate their effects on a larger scale.One way governments do this is by tracking CO2 Emissions. The World Bank explains, “Carbon dioxide emissions are those stemming from the burning of fossil fuels and the manufacture of cement. They include carbon dioxide produced during consumption of solid, liquid, and gas fuels and gas flaring.” By monitoring national output and global impact, world actors can be accountable for their input in environmental deprecation.
These gases absorb heat and solar energy and keep that heat closer to the Earth’s surface, causing rising temperatures, drought, extinction of different species, and limitations on resources. We are seeing some of the highest levels of atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide.
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
This Zero Emissions Day, get informed about the atmosphere and try to limit your emissions.
Try Learn Lessons about the climate and environment:
