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Forget Carbon Offsets. The Planet Needs Carbon Removal Credits


The carbon removal market is fast growing, with an array of different removal methods available to businesses keen to mitigate their environmental impact.

Low-level technologies such as biochar —created by burning wood in very low oxygen—alongside basal rocks, which absorb CO 2 over thousands of years, make good fertilizer that locks carbon in. And machines including Orca, a large plant in Iceland, will soon be sucking 4,000 metric tons of CO 2 from the air every year, mineralizing it and turning it to stone. Walker finished with a chilling picture of a plaque in Iceland on the site of the first glacier to disappear.

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