SolutionsBerkeley Lab/Flickrhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ It’s time to get serious about carbon removal If the world is to reach net zero, billions of tons of carbon dioxide need pulling from the air every year. At the moment, the global carbon removal system extracts less than 0.01 percent of that.
Top StoryFriends of the Earth International/ Flickr We’ve never seen a carbon-removal plan like this before Companies including Google and Facebook are pouring more than $900 million into a nascent technology that’s essential to zeroing out emissions.
Solutions www.nytimes.com Start-ups hoping to fight climate change struggle as other tech firms cash in A number of small companies are looking for ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Impacts www.washingtonpost.com Erik Hoffner: Agroforestry is a cheap, scalable way to combat climate change Agroforests are a cheap, scalable way to clean the air.
