Methods of removing CO2 from the atmosphere add vital flexibility to efforts to tackle climate change. They must be brought into mainstream climate policy as soon as possible to open up the landscape for innovation and development, and to discover which approaches work at scale.
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Lomax, G., Lenton, T., Adeosun, A. et al. Investing in negative emissions. Nature Clim Change 5, 498–500 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2627
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