Report: Carbon dioxide removal technologies must scale faster than solar to meet 1.5°C climate target
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Ajit Niranjan
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Summary
A new report finds that novel carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies must grow at extremely ambitious rates—even faster than solar panel deployment—to help limit global heating to 1.5°C. The next five years are critical for establishing these technologies' role in bridging the gap between current government pledges and Paris Agreement targets. The study emphasizes that machines that directly capture CO2 from the atmosphere need rapid scaling to address climate change.
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The next five years were critical to establishing the technologies' role in limiting climate damages.
Humanity must suck carbon out of the atmosphere with new technologies even faster than the breakneck speed with which it has deployed solar panels if it is to limit global heating to 1.5C.
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