Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)

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CDR is removal of CO2 from the atmosphere - an essential basket of technologies for achieving UN IPCC best outcomes to mitigate climate change. This is a community for discussing advances and issues of CDR.

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At this rate, carbon dioxide removal will never matter for the climate| The carbon dioxide removal industry is struggling to grow at pace needed to have a significant role in meeting climate targets (www.newscientist.com)

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[–] solo@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

I find the following part to be very illuminating

Yet a million tonnes – or even the full 28 million tonnes that have been purchased to date – is negligible in terms of impact on the climate. At current emissions levels, removing a million tonnes is like undoing 13 minutes out of a full year of emissions,