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carbon neutral
adjective
- pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions:
Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral;
a carbon-neutral brewery.
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- carbon neutrality noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of carbon neutral1
First recorded in 1990–95
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Example Sentences
Al Gore, however, sold his Current TV channel to Al Jazeera, which is funded by the royal family of famously carbon neutral Qatar.
From The Daily Beast
“When someone has a cocktail that person becomes carbon neutral,” he laughs.
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Google, for one, has gotten plenty of press about its four-year-old ambition to become a carbon-neutral company.
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