Video: How we can take CO2 out of the atmosphere?
“Reducing emissions is necessary, but it is not sufficient. It’s essential that we go further and take CO2 out.”
In this World Economic Forum IdeasLab video, recorded during the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2014, Tim Kruger, from the University of Oxford, argues that we have to do more than just reduce CO2 emissions, and also absorb some CO2 from the atmosphere.
To watch the full video click on the player above.
The Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2015 takes place in Dalian, People’s Republic of China, from 9th-11th September 2015.
Author: Tim Kruger is James Martin Fellow at the Oxford Geoengineering Programme.
Image: Excess natural gas is being flared, or burnt off, at a flare stack at the refinery in Tula November 21, 2013. REUTERS/Henry Romero
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