Events

Carbon dioxide removal: Are science and policy keeping up with the market?

Tuesday 3 February

Even with stringent and rapid reductions in emission of greenhouse gases it is clear, and has been since the Paris agreement in 2015, that we will need to remove hundreds of billions of tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere to keep warming below 2C∘. CO2 removal (CDR) presents both a challenge and a dilemma to environmental scientists and regulators. The Oxford Networks for the Environment (ONE) annual lecture, followed by panel discussion, will ask: what do we need to do, as the demand for CDR credits grows, to ensure that credits have real climate value and are not causing unintended environmental harm?