European Study Highlights Necessity for Carbon Dioxide Removal

Alongside drastic emission reductions, carbon dioxide removal technologies and practices are needed to keep the Paris Agreement climate target within reach. This is concluded in an extensive multidisciplinary research project involving top European universities and research institutes. According to the project coordinator at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, emission reductions and carbon dioxide removal cannot be seen as alternatives – action is required on all fronts.

Carbon dioxide removals have been the subject of lively public debate recently. The European Commission has communicated that drastic emission reductions must be supplemented with land-based and industrial carbon removals by 2040 to keep on track with the climate neutrality target by 2050. For the past four years, the multidisciplinary NEGEM research project has focused…