Carbon removal: can we suck CO2 back out of the sky?

Conventional land-based methods like reforestation currently account for ninety-nine point nine percent of all carbon removal.

Direct air capture faces high energy costs because carbon dioxide makes up only zero point zero four percent of air.

Microsoft currently dominates the novel carbon removal market by purchasing eighty-two percent of all available credits.

Enhanced rock weathering uses basalt powder on farmland to accelerate the natural process of scrubbing carbon from the sky.

Prioritizing low-carbon-removal pathways could save thirty-two thousand more lives annually by reducing respiratory diseases from co-pollutants.

Novel high-tech solutions currently represent only zero point one percent of the two billion tonnes removed each year.