Greenhouse gases refers to a number of chemicals in the earth’s atmosphere, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and industrial ones like fluorinated or F-gases. If they’re allowed to build ...

because overall no carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere. The definition of net zero emissions is sometimes expanded to include other gases such as methane, nitrous oxide and hydrofluorocarbons.

that represents the total amount of carbon dioxide and other green-house gases that are associated with a product, person or even a country. Imagine a carbon footprint being like a big maths sum ...

Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but there is far less of it in the atmosphere and it does not stay there as long. Methane is more than 25 times as potent as carbon ...