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Carbon capture nets 2 billion tonnes of CO2 each year — but it’s not enough

As well as cutting emissions, governments need to ramp up investment in carbon dioxide removal technologies to hit climate goals, researchers warn.
  1. Miryam Naddaf
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More than 2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide is being removed from Earth’s atmosphere each year, according to an analysis of global efforts to capture and store the greenhouse gas.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00180-4

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  • Correction 23 January 2023: An earlier version of this article stated that to meet climate goals, the world will need to remove a further 0.96 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year. This has been corrected to 0.96 billion tonnes.

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