
If greenhouse gas emissions aren’t curbed, carbon dioxide removal won’t make a difference
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The nascent carbon dioxide removal industry expects to hit a milestone this year: 1 million tonnes of planet-warming CO2 removed from the atmosphere. That certainly is progress, but things aren’t moving anywhere near quickly enough to remove the billions of tonnes of carbon researchers say we need to capture annually in coming decades.
“It’s not scaling up as fast as it would need to if we are…
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Publish date : 2025-05-30 14:00:00
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