Direct air carbon removal projects are like giant vacuum cleaners that suck planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the air and lock it away. “What you’re really building is an entire carbon removal industry,” Larsen said. It’s way, way harder.”A fast-moving timelineThe momentum is growing quickly for direct air removal. The $3.5 billion Congress recently passed for carbon removal, as part of the bipartisan infrastructure law, is a significant increase in funding. “There’s a huge emphasis around carbon removal as a critical tool that needs to be scaled up today,” Wilcox said.

Source: CNN May 19, 2022 18:42 UTC