CO2 removal ‘gap’ shows countries ‘lack progress’ for 1.5C warming limit | Plans to “draw down” CO2 from the atmosphere – known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – “fall short” of the quantities needed to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, new research warns.
CO2 removal ‘gap’ shows countries ‘lack progress’ for 1.5C warming limit
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The paper is [here](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-01984-6.epdf?sharing_token=-1at3JaR5TJpEyvbkNuHMtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Oi1U6i_y4QWaEQhurTxpW3a2vSJ_i3uh37l0mHKm759kHrKSPhTMlselduz6eQ6A5y6ZYNoBzMIfJM6FaGENkqY2IJ9j-Oo7-JMWUlPRB59Kr0cjqVdt_k8tVHjtwx11K4-SjCtx0WdYUrnfMcyQOt6-kdegxfU-EfoD9eV5abV_aAsjYq6oaUxHNnwenrmNc%3D)
Do these efforts even exist as serious undertakings? What percentage of GDP is generally allocated to them?
A CO2 removal figure is pointless on its own. What matters is the ratio of CO2 removal vs CO2 addition, and how quickly that ratio is changing.