Tu et al. (2026): Scaling up enhanced rock weathering for equitable climate change mitigation
Ying Tu, Radine Rafols, Yangyang Xu, Natalia Butler, Linah Ababneh, Feng Tao, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Benjamin Z. Houlton and Chuan Liao, IN: Communications Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44458-026-00034-w
Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is an emerging approach to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while improving soil health and crop productivity. Yet its long-term climate impact remains uncertain due to limited understanding of how adoption will evolve across regions, income groups, and in response to a warming world. Here, the authors combine historical analogs of technological diffusion with a coupled human–nature feedback model to provide spatially explicit projections of global ERW adoption through 2100.