Special report | St Augustine’s climate policy

The temptations of deferred removals

Carbon dioxide removals must start at scale sooner than people think

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Image: Ben Denzer

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”

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