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Maybe we don’t have to capture so much carbon, study suggests
It challenges assumptions about how much CO2 removal is needed to clean up international travel and agriculture.
Some environmental advocates also worry that focusing on cleaning up pollution after the fact could lure companies away from transitioning to renewable energy to prevent emissions in the first place. The authors of a paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change last week scoured previous research to identify ways each of those hard-to-abate sectors could cut down their pollution. “In a way, it finds the cheapest options to reduce emissions,” says Oreane Edelenbosch, lead author of the research and an assistant professor at Utrecht University.
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