Sentences with phrase «to remove carbon from the atmosphere»

One such path - bending innovation is the idea of removing carbon from the atmosphere on large scales.

We continue to innovate with new and longer - term solutions such as carbon farming which removes carbon from the atmosphere and puts it back into the soil.

Cutting emissions isn't enough, we need to start removing carbon from the atmosphere.

The number is negative, indicating that the farming and logging of red cedar actually removes carbon from the atmosphere.

And we continue to invest in potential breakthrough technologies that could further remove carbon from our atmosphere.

Of course, if we need massive amounts of energy to remove carbon from the atmosphere after an energy supply chain breakdown, we are done for.

What's a promising way of removing carbon from the atmosphere?

CDR techniques, by contrast, seek to alter the planet's carbon cycle, by removing carbon from the atmosphere as measured by tons of CO2 sequestered.

On November 4th, Michael Ashcroft, of the Carbon Trust, and I gave a presentation on the topic of technologies for removing carbon from the atmosphere and their implications for industry and government, at the USEA, in Washington, D.C.

«Just as trees remove carbon from the atmosphere and hold it for many years in their woody tissue, so do they sequester the shared experiences of the people who live alongside them,» he writes.

Researchers argue that tropical reservoirs in Brazil are a «methane factory, continuously removing carbon from the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and returning it as methane, with a much greater impact on global warming.»

3) Developing cost - effective and sustainable CDR systems to remove carbon from the atmosphere in addition to decarbonizing our economy.

But it's too simplistic to rely on forests to continue removing carbon from the atmosphere, the study says, noting that forest carbon sequestration is reversible if drought, wildfire and insect damage increase.

Cool Planet's proposed facility will provide enormous help in learning how to make biochar at industrial scales in a way that could help make a material impact on removing carbon from the atmosphere.

Not only are they one of the most important carbon sinks, storing more carbon than both the atmosphere and the world's oil reserves, they also constantly remove carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, which converts atmospheric carbon to organic matter.

Forestry is a controversial topic when it comes to carbon offset projects, since this is a type of carbon sequestration and does not permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere.

3 tons, or even less, as planetary target must be combined with global cooling also aggressively remove carbon from the atmosphere and sequester in soil or biomass or otherwise remove and store it.

We already know that nations» Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, as they stand now, will not be enough to meet the goals of the agreement, and it's widely accepted that, in order to keep warming below two degrees Celsius, we'll have to deploy technologies to remove carbon from the atmosphere during the second half of the century.

Nations may need to physically remove carbon from the atmosphere, and they may have to deploy «negative emissions technology» - techniques that scrub CO2 out of the air.

Afforestation, also known as the opposite of what's happening now (deforestation), has potential as another way to help remove carbon from the atmosphere, though the report notes that the evidence to suggest this is limited.

In this future scenario with a high need for CDR, if the PUC had built the coal + CCS project, it could choose to retrofit the plant to a biomass + CCS power plant capable of removing carbon from the atmosphere at a relatively small incremental cost.

Some engineers have even proposed dumping iron into the ocean to trigger phytoplankton blooms — a strategy that they speculate will slow global warming by removing carbon from the atmosphere (SN: 6/5/10, p. 16).

Techno - fixes for removing carbon from the atmosphere or blocking the sun's rays are risky and expensive.

While scientists increasingly assume that carbon removal solutions will provide a critical component in the fight against climate change, they are quick to acknowledge that we aren't researching and building carbon removal projects nearly as fast as needed to ensure we actually can remove carbon from the atmosphere at the scale needed.

Not, as we might expect, inequality as the unequal distribution of capital, but as the distribution of access to «carbon sinks» — natural biological and geological processes, which remove carbon from the atmosphere, and maintain the «balance» on which climatic security supposedly depends.

This is because soil water is essential for vegetation to remove carbon from the atmosphere in the process of photosynthesis and it also drives variation in microbial processes that affect the loss of carbon from soils.

So there is a strong argument to be made for us to start developing CDR technologies today alongside renewable energy technologies, so that if / when we need to start removing carbon from the atmosphere, we have a suite of viable solutions to do so.

These payments can take many different forms; from companies or individuals buying carbon offsets from forestry projects, where planting trees removes carbon from the atmosphere to prevent climate change; to cities and towns paying nearby industrial farms or factories to adopt pollution prevention techniques that keep water sources clean.

As Branson discovered, we can't just build a great big contraption (or app) to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

Some observers quietly worry that, under Trump, a new focus on climate engineering could become part of a justification for delaying government action to curb carbon emissions, with the reasoning that geoengineering technologies could later be used to remove carbon from the atmosphere, or prevent the warming effects of solar radiation.

Of the two main geoengineering approaches — altering the albedo, or reflectivity, of Earth, and removing carbon from the atmosphere — there have been more actual experiments involving carbon removal, including work at several companies.

«If the world is to have any hope of meeting the Paris target, governments will need to pursue policies that not only reduce emissions but remove carbon from the atmosphere.»

For thousands of years, Arctic grasses, shrubs and other plants have removed carbon from the atmosphere and stored it in the tundra soil, where microbes feed on decomposing organic matter.

Users can also compare EU emissions and see which countries are providing the largest environmental services to the rest of the world by removing carbon from the atmosphere.

For example, doubling renewables in the energy sector every 5 - 7 years, ramping up technologies to remove carbon from the atmosphere, and rapidly reducing emissions from agriculture and deforestation.

Carbon Engineering's pilot plant: It is removing carbon from the atmosphere and soon will transform it into energy - rich fuel for heavy transport vehicles.

This VEC guest blog by Noah Deich examines what is and isn't known about the cost of removing carbon from the atmosphere.

Carbon Sequestration... is defined as «The process of removing carbon from the atmosphere and depositing it in a reservoir».

The candidate, I imagine, hits the «stop button» and asks «I know that converting biomass to fossil fuels is a long - term process and thus can't mitigate global warming, but won't biomass pick up the slack and remove carbon from the atmosphere.

On your other point that «the only viable way to remove carbon from the atmosphere — ,» I offer my approach which is, «The most viable way to reduce CO2 from the atmosphere is to put a lot less into it and then let nature work through our past excesses.»

The CDR field has begun to emerge out of relative obscurity recently as scientists have grown more confident that we will need to remove carbon from the atmosphere to prevent climate change.

Biomass energy and CCS (bio-CCS) could provide a valuable strategy to remove carbon from the atmosphere, and if the option for bio-CCS were woven into the narrative of why we need to develop CCS today, green groups would be more likely to start embracing CCS technology.

«We should have viable strategies to remove carbon from the atmosphere,» Coale told LiveScience.