Swoboda & Oschlies (2025): Limits to CDR accounting: The role of carbon fluxes, time(liness) and storage
Steffen Swoboda and Andreas Oschlies, IN: Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adde73
Atmospheric carbon dioxide removal measures are a necessity to mitigate climate change. The 2015 Paris Agreement adopted by UNFCCC member states aims to limit global temperature rise below 2 ºC, with efforts to cap it at 1.5 ºC. Achieving these goals necessitates reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide (CO₂), to net-zero by 2050. Meanwhile, even most ambitious emission reduction scenarios reveal the need for additional negative emissions, known as “carbon dioxide removal” (CDR), to meet Paris Agreement targets.