Building a portfolio of scalable carbon removal solutions - Considerations of durability, scalability and energetics

In order to limit global warming and avoid the most disastrous effects of climate change, we need to (1) drastically reduce emissions and (2) remove large amounts of legacy greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. There are many approaches to CDR (carbon dioxide removal), the process to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away for decades, centuries and millennia: from planting new forests, capturing and sequestering carbon from waste biomass, spreading crushed rock on agricultural fields to react with CO2 in rainwater, building chemical adsorption-looping processes or enhancing the oceans ability to store carbon dioxide. In this talk we’ll have a look at specific benefits and challenges across CDR technologies. We will explore considerations of durability, verifiability, and scalability and discuss how a balanced portfolio of solutions can maximize climate value.

Speaker: Frauke Kracke, Frontier

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