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• Published date: 21 January 2023
• Publication title: Mix, The

Rapid growth of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) from the atmosphere is needed to reach the Paris Agreement goal to limit warming to well below 2degC and pursue efforts to achieve 1.5degC, according to the first ‘‘State of Carbon Dioxide Removal’’ report, led by Oxford University. Almost all current CDR comes from conventional removal methods on land (2 GtCO2 per year), primarily via planting trees and managing soils. Countries need to maintain and expand this, approximately doubling in 1.5degC pathways by 2050 compared to 2020 levels. But virtually all pathways also require new CDR technologies, which currently make up only a tiny fraction of current CDR (0.002 GtCO2 per year). Closing the CDR gap requires rapid growth of these technologies by a factor of 1300 on average by 2050

WARMING ICE

Ice cores from the Greenland Ice Sheet show it is the warmest it has been in the past 1000 years. Further, between 2001 and 2011 the ice sheet was on average 1.5degC...