Countries that industrialised early will still have a massive ‘carbon debt’ to repay.
- James Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin School, Environmental Change Institute and Institute for Science Innovation and Society, University of Oxford
Emissions linger in the atmosphere for far longer than human or corporate lifespans.
Because pledges alone won’t achieve net zero.
It’s a daunting technical challenge. But the key question is whether such engineering is socially acceptable.
Sometime soon we’ll need to take more carbon out of the atmosphere than we emit – but how?
After all the jubilation about the president’s plan, it’s time for a reality check.
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