A new report finds that governments need to quadruple the amount of carbon dioxide removed each year from the atmosphere to meet global climate goals. Currently, carbon dioxide removal eliminates around 2 billion metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere every year. However, the report finds those efforts need to rise to around 7-9 billion tons if temperature rises are to be kept below the key threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius. The report calls for the scaling up and expansion of carbon removal to meet the Paris agreement.
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Jonathan Deason is a professor and director of the GW Environmental & Energy Management Institute. His expertise includes all aspects of air quality management, including greenhouse gas management and implications for global climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as energy policy, renewable energy, and environmental management and sustainability.
Rachael Jonassen, associate research professor, is director of the Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Management Program in the GW Environmental & Energy Management Institute. She previously served as program director for Carbon Cycle at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and as NSF representative to the US Global Change Research Program. Her expertise includes climate change science, greenhouse gas mitigation, and climate change risk and mitigation.
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