Center for Carbon Removal: 5 Gt of negative emissions by 2050?
„A group of European scientists recently published a paper titled, “A roadmap for rapid decarbonization” in the journal Science that attempts to change just that. The paper lays out what the authors dubbed the “Carbon Law,” which explains a simple heuristic for what we need to do meet our climate goals. The “Carbon Law” proposes that we will have to halve our CO2 emissions each decade starting in 2020 while also ramping up carbon removal rapidly starting in only a few decades time to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 (and reducing land sector emissions to zero) as described in the chart, below. And while the Paris Agreement targets will be challenging to meet, the “Carbon Law” analysis reveals important points about carbon removal — and just how critical it will be for the Paris Agreement.“