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Planting trees to remove carbon can harm the environment – or protect it: study highlights trade‑offs

Carbon removal strategies may conflict with biodiversity conservation, but careful choices could bring benefits.
Further warming hugely increases the risk we will pass climate tipping points, such as the collapse of Greenland’s ice sheet. Michal Balada / shutterstock

Overshooting 1.5°C is risky – that’s why we need to hedge our bets

Investing in carbon removal, on top of the most ambitious emissions cuts possible, is a no-regrets strategy.
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The 1.5°C global warming limit is not impossible – but without political action it soon will be

Humanity can still limit global warming to 1.5°C this century. But political action will determine whether it actually does. Conflating the two questions amounts to dangerous, misplaced punditry.

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