Sustainability: Main Concepts
Sustainability: Main Concepts
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What are Greenhouse Gases?
What are Greenhouse Gases?
Greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases, trap heat in the atmosphere and contribute to global warming.
GHG emissions and removals associated with human activities can be tracked across sectors, including transportation, industry, electricity, agriculture, and land use.
Watch this video by NASA to learn more about how the greenhouse effect works and contributes to climate change.
Carbon Neutrality
Carbon Neutrality
Carbon Neutrality refers to achieving a state where the net amount of greenhouse gas emissions emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero by taking actions to minimize those emissions and/or by purchasing offsets.
Carbon Offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for emissions made elsewhere. This can be a project to mitigate Greenhouse gas GHG emissions that is measurable, additional, and verifiable.
Source: U.S. EPA, Carbon Offsets
Watch this video by Sustain Life to learn more about the difference between net-zero and carbon-neutral.
Net Zero
Net Zero
Net Zero, according to the United Nations (UN), means cutting carbon emissions to a small amount of residual emissions that can be absorbed and durably stored by nature and other carbon dioxide removal measures, leaving zero in the atmosphere.
Watch this short, silent video by the UN to learn more!
Climate Resilience
Climate Resilience
Climate Resilience is the capacity of an individual, group, or system to prevent, withstand, respond to, and recover from a climate-related disruption.
It's about ensuring places and people are prepared, and how we cope with these challenges.
In 2022, Scio Township committed itself to a just transition to net-zero GHG emissions due to township operations no later than 2030 and to the same goal through all sectors of the township by 2035.
In 2022, Scio Township committed itself to a just transition to net-zero GHG emissions due to township operations no later than 2030 and to the same goal through all sectors of the township by 2035.
Watch this 1-minute video by the UN to learn more!
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