Net Zero
Get Ready for Big Political Fights Over Carbon Accounting
Just as we did during the pandemic, we’ll all have to get familiar with the scientific jargon around climate change
Piles of coal at the Newcastle Coal Port, in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
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We’ve learned a number of new terms over the course of the pandemic: R number, variants, herd immunity, mRNA and so on. These concepts are often foreign and complicated, but they help both policymakers and the person on the street make sense of the crisis. When faced with an existential challenge, we all learned a little bit of scientific jargon.