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What you need to know about carbon removal

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Every carbon removal approach takes some combination of natural resources, human ingenuity and technology, says climate thinker Gabrielle Walker. If we get the mix right, we can clean up the environmental mess we've made, reverse the processes behind climate change and give nature a chance to heal. "What goes up must now come down."

The IPCC says we need billions of tons of carbon removal between now and 2050 in order to stay below 1.5C of warming.

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