{"id":155904,"date":"2023-01-20T19:31:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T01:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/co2-removal-needs-1300x-increase-by-2050"},"modified":"2023-01-20T19:31:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T01:31:35","slug":"co2-removal-needs-1300x-increase-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/co2-removal-needs-1300x-increase-by-2050","title":{"rendered":"CO2 removal needs 1,300x increase by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/co2-removal-needs-1300x-increase-by-20502.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exponential progress can be expected in the decades ahead, if all goes according to plan. [\u2026] Combined with emission reductions, and natural methods such as forest restoration, it could finally begin reversing the centuries-long build-up of CO2, which is today approaching a cumulative total of nearly 2,000 GtCO2 since the Industrial Revolution.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>The first comprehensive, global assessment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) \u2013 including both current developments and projected future trends \u2013 has been published this week by Oxford University.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The detailed analysis finds that natural methods (such as tree and soil restoration) will need to double, while new technologies such as direct air capture need a 1,300-fold capacity increase by 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exponential progress can be expected in the decades ahead, if all goes according to plan. [\u2026] Combined with emission reductions, and natural methods such as forest restoration, it could finally begin reversing the centuries-long build-up of CO2, which is today approaching a cumulative total of nearly 2,000 GtCO2 since the Industrial Revolution. The first comprehensive, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}