The “unavoidable” need to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to limit global warming, starkly laid out in the latest UN report on climate change, has given a boost to the technologies involved despite their shortcomings.
Carbon removal includes through biological methods, such as planting trees and soil preservation, as well as chemically or mechanically, by using machines to extract it from the air and store it underground.
Some technological solutions would be needed because there was “only so much land, and you can’t expect the land to mop up all the greenhouse gas emissions,” said Joanna House, from the University of Bristol, and one of the authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
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