How Do We Cut Our Energy Emissions? | A User's Guide To Net Zero | BBC Earth Science

In the modern world, energy is essential, but it causes 75% of total global emissions. With our energy usage expected to DOUBLE by 2050, how are we going to reach net zero?

What is the plan to become net zero by 2050? To cut carbon emissions down to zero massive changes in the way we live need to happen from how we heat our homes to how we travel. Join Lucy Evans as she explains what these changes could be for a #UsersGuideToNetZero.

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[Haseri]

"individuals taking responsibility for their own actions" yeah, I'll just set up a wind turbine in my garden. Individual responsibility is a lie created by oil companies to hide their impact

[Aragorn]

Why no mention of pumped storage hydropower for storing energy? It's widely used and there are a number of new projects both being built and planned.

[Systox]

3:53 Gravity Based Storage? You mean Pumped-storage hydroelectricity.
Because what you showed in your video is a render that will never happen.

[alikaostermiller]

cool. then we gotta 1000x our metal/rare metal mining. but nobody wants to talk about that.

[spencerftn]

Talking about clean energy, and not mentioning nuclear removes any pretense of credibility.
Nuclear is the future or clean energy. Anti-nuclear is pro-fossil fuel.

[tramsgar]

Or just question the unquestionable "fact" that "energy usage will double by 2050"

[jackimo]

Oxides of nitrogen/ NOx/ nitrogen oxide are also 300x worse than CO2 as greenhouse gasses. Left that bit out of the hydrogen bit…

[AkeN]

Yeah well, things have changed since a certain war has appeared and the the enviromental thingy isn't of utmost importance anymore.

[michaelrae]

Isn't this the announcer from the AT&T commercials?

[blondebeard]

What is the impact on the environment to produce all this infrastructure?

[manu]

No worries, by 2050 we all will be dead

[tanjoy]

We should ask the Americans to loan us some nukes and build nuclear power plants !

[wasinAlpha]

Is your nose blocked/clogged? You talk as if you have stuffed cotton inside your nose holes... really hard and painful to listen to...