When carbon-neutral refers to balancing out the total amount of carbon emissions, net-zero carbon means no carbon was emitted from the get-go, so no carbon needs to be captured or offset. For example, a company's building running entirely on solar, and using zero fossil fuels can label its energy as “zero carbon.”
Offsetting carbon emissions, in addition to avoidance and reduction, is an important step in holistic climate action. Greenhouse gases such as CO2 disperse uniformly in the atmosphere, this means that the concentration of greenhouse gases is approximately the same all over the world.
✱ Carbon neutral means that any CO2 released into the atmosphere from a company's activities is balanced by an equivalent amount being removed.
✱ Climate-positive means that activity goes beyond achieving net-zero carbon emissions to create an environmental benefit by removing additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
✱ Carbon negative means the same thing as “climate positive.”
✱ Carbon positive is how organizations describe climate positive and carbon negative. It’s mainly a marketing term, and understandably confusing–we generally avoid it.
✱ Climate Neutral refers to reducing all GHG to the point of zero while eliminating all other negative environmental impacts that an organization may cause.
✱ Net-Zero carbon emissions mean that an activity releases net-zero carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
✱ Net-Zero emissions balance the whole amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) released and the amount removed from the atmosphere.
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