Chemical Engineer: Paris Agreement targets can’t be reached with negative emission technologies
„The report states that NETs should not be relied upon later in the century to compensate for failure to mitigate emissions now. Not only do the NETs investigated in the report fail to reach the level of carbon removal predicted in some climate scenarios, the time taken between researching new technologies and successfully implementing them will take decades. If NETs are seen as a viable solution to climate change, they could influence policy makers to focus on these rather than to prioritise the more urgent need to curb emissions.“