CO₂-removal News

The Energy Collective: COP 21: A Pathway for 1.5°C

„A pathway that doesn’t involve future use of CCS would require net zero emissions in just 23 years – an option that isn’t even remotely feasible. Returning to the 40 year pathway, even this presents an immensely challenging task. While it might be feasible to have a zero emissions power sector in under 40 years, particularly given that all the necessary technologies to do so exist in one form or another, electricity still represents only 20% of final energy use.“

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Cal Alumni: Strip It and Stash It: Climate Scientists Focus on Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air

„Why the shift? Simply put, it looks like cutting human-generated emissions alone won’t be enough to keep Earth from warming more than the 2°C limit established as a goal by the UN. By scouring gaseous carbon from the atmosphere and locking it up in plants and rocks, the thinking goes, we can keep the element from performing its global warming[nbsp]mischief.“

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