Turning Air into Stone: Tech-Based Carbon Removal

Climate One

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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It has been 3 million years since there’s been this much CO2 in the atmosphere. Even if we stop all burning of fossil fuels today, humans have already emitted enough CO2 that we’ll continue experiencing extreme weather events for years to come. Not only do we need to stop emitting greenhouse gasses, but according to the IPCC, we also need to accelerate the removal of CO2. With forests burning faster than we can grow them, nature-based solutions may not be enough. What role might tech-based solutions play? Can they be implemented in a just, equitable way that does not give license for fossil fuel interests to continue business as usual? Guests: Marcius Extavour, VP, Energy & Climate, XPRIZE Angela Anderson, Director of Industrial Innovation and Carbon Removal at World Resources Institute Rachel Glennerster, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Hi, it's Greg Dalton. I'd like to hear your comments on the show, topics we should cover,
0:35.0	and guest suggestions. You can reach me at Greg at
0:37.7	Climate1.org. This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. New technologies hold promise for pulling
0:44.7	carbon emissions out of the atmosphere. Things designed by humans tend to be more energy
0:50.1	intensive than things designed in nature. It's also roughly true that things that
0:54.6	humans design tend to be a little more efficient than things that are designed in nature.
0:59.7	But we also have to find ways to incentivize carbon removal.
1:03.6	We can suck carbon out of the air in this really good way, and the financial markets are
1:08.6	going to go, yeah, but who's going to buy that?
1:11.8	How are you going to make any money from that?
1:13.9	The reality is we need to employ all the tools we have to help mitigate the climate crisis.
1:19.6	I don't think the moral hazard is quite as compelling as it would have been, say, a decade ago
1:25.0	when these climate impacts were not so obvious,
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