<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">“M<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">any governments and industries are relying on future large-scale, land-based carbon dioxide (CO</span><span style="vertical-align: -1.5px; font-kerning: none" class="">2</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">) removal (CDR) to avoid making necessary steep greenhouse gas (GHG) emission cuts today (<i class="">1</i>, <i class="">2</i>). “</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“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 CO</span><span style="vertical-align: -1.5px; font-kerning: none" class="">2 </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">per year (GtCO</span><span style="vertical-align: -1.5px; font-kerning: none" class="">2</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">/year), respectively (<i class="">3</i>). Together, this could require converting up to 29 million km</span><span style="vertical-align: 4.0px; font-kerning: none" class="">2 </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">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.” </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Science <b class=""> </b>2 FEBRUARY 2024 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Sustainability limits needed for CO</b></span><span style="vertical-align: -7.0px; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2 </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">removal </b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The true climate mitigation challenge is revealed by considering sustainability impacts </span></p><div class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
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