What Iceland’s landmark carbon removal project means for the fight against climate change
When the world’s biggest facility for sucking carbon dioxide out of the air and burying it underground opened in rural Iceland last week, it may have sounded like a miracle cure for climate change had finally arrived.
EU plans certification scheme for carbon dioxide removals
The European Commission will publish a policy paper by the end of the year on “the sustainable management of the carbon cycle” – the first step towards an EU-wide certification scheme for negative emissions coming from agriculture, forestry and other sources, that will be tabled in 2022.
Firms sucking carbon from air see boost from climate ‘code red’
Three leading ‘direct air capture’ companies say interest from governments and investors is rising, despite high costs and opposition from some green groups
Can carbon capture technology save the planet?
Humans have been spewing planet-warming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere for years. Can emerging innovations reverse the damage done?