What are "peak carbon" and "carbon neutral"?
Carbon peak refers to China's commitment to 2030, carbon dioxide emissions no longer increase, after the peak gradually reduced.
Carbon neutrality refers to the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions directly or indirectly produced by enterprises, organizations or individuals within a certain period of time, and then offset their own carbon dioxide emissions through plant afforestation, energy conservation and emission reduction, so as to achieve zero carbon dioxide emissions.
Why carbon neutrality?
Climate change is a global issue facing human beings. With carbon dioxide emissions, greenhouse gases soar, threatening living systems. In this context, countries around the world in the way of global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, China put forward carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals.
Why carbon neutrality?
Climate change is a global issue facing human beings. With carbon dioxide emissions, greenhouse gases soar, threatening living systems. Over the past 200 years, humans have released hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which has caused the earth's temperature to rise year by year. What would happen if the earth's average temperature were to rise by another 3 degrees Celsius? Perhaps the northeast will no longer be cold, the desert will become an oasis, Afghanistan will become a watery land. Isn't that a wonderful thing, as the picture below illustrates?
The sea level will rise by 60 meters, and more than 1,000 cities will become underwater cities. There will be a lot of extreme weather; A lot of species will go extinct; As a result, our planet can no longer afford a temperature of 3 degrees Celsius, and a peak must be set to keep the maximum temperature under control.
To cap the peak of carbon emissions, the first step is carbon neutrality, as illustrated in the following chart:
What can we do to become carbon neutral?
We all have a stake in achieving carbon neutrality. Turn off the computer, open a window, bring your own shopping bag, plant a tree... As long as you learn to do subtraction: emission reduction, pollution reduction, burden reduction, desire reduction, deceleration, can contribute to carbon neutrality, carbon emission reduction.
Disposable plastic use causes a large number of carbon emissions, but do not use a plastic products and bring us life in the majority of life is not convenient. So how do we balance our love of disposable products with reducing carbon emissions? The answer is to use primary products made of polylactic acid or durable products, electronic packaging, etc. So what about polylactic acid products that reduce carbon emissions?
IFEU, a German LCA research institute, tracked danone's use of polylactic acid packaging materials and concluded that
In addition, the chart below fully shows that PLA material is a zero emission material.
We hope that through this article you can understand the use of polylactic acid products can achieve zero emissions, which is an important part of carbon neutrality.
So, POLylactic acid -- the key to achieve "carbon peak, carbon neutral"!!
source:https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5QvHnTKZaGAqmz_EDA-yaw