Special report | St Augustine’s climate policy
The temptations of deferred removals
Carbon dioxide removals must start at scale sooner than people think
THE realisation that carbon-dioxide removal (CDR) had been seriously neglected, say many of those in the field, dates back roughly five years: it was a reaction to a provision of the Paris agreement of 2015 which took a few years to sink in.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “What goes up must come down. Eventually”