Why remove carbon?
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time, causing more extreme weather, rising sea levels, and harm to our ecosystems and communities. While reducing carbon emissions is essential to slowing down climate change, it’s not enough on its own.
The carbon dioxide (CO₂) that has already been released into the atmosphere over the past century will continue to warm our planet, even if we stop all new emissions today. This is why carbon removal is so important. Carbon removal refers to different methods and technologies that can pull CO₂ out of the atmosphere and store it safely, either in natural places like forests and soils or in more permanent ways, such as underground.
Unlike efforts to reduce missions, which aim to prevent more CO₂ from being added, carbon removal deals with the CO₂ that is already there.
This is crucial for reaching global climate goals, like keeping global warming below 1.5°C, agreed in the Paris Agreement.Carbon removal refers to different methods and technologies that can pull CO₂ out of the atmosphere and store it safely, either in natural places like forests and soils or in more permanent ways, such as underground.
