[MCN] "The true climate mitigation challenge is revealed by considering sustainability impacts "

[Lance Olsen]

“Many governments and industries are relying on future large-scale, land-based carbon dioxide (CO2) removal (CDR) to avoid making necessary steep greenhouse gas (GHG) emission cuts today (1, 2). “


“The latest IPCC Working Group III (WGIII) report estimates the upper “technical mitigation potential” of BECCS and A/R at 11.3 and 10 gigatonnes of CO2 per year (GtCO2/year), respectively (3). Together, this could require converting up to 29 million km2 of land— over three times the area of the United States—to bioenergy crops or trees, and po- tentially push over 300 million people into food insecurity.” 


Science  2 FEBRUARY 2024 

Sustainability limits needed for CO2 removal 

The true climate mitigation challenge is revealed by considering sustainability impacts 



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“The gap between high- and low-income families has widened steadily since about 1980, hitting a new high every year since 1985. “

Business Week, November 21, 1994, p. 72.




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