{"id":248930,"date":"2025-10-24T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/248930\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:14:10","slug":"whats-next-for-carbon-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/248930\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s next for carbon removal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cReliable assurance that a project\u2019s declared ton of carbon savings equates to a real ton of emissions removed, reduced, or avoided is crucial,\u201d Cynthia Giles, a senior EPA advisor under President Biden, and Cary Coglianese, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote in a recent editorial<\/a> in Science. \u201cYet extensive research from many contexts shows that auditors selected and paid by audited organizations often produce results skewed toward those entities\u2019 interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noah McQueen, the director of science and innovation at Carbon180, has stressed that the industry must strive to counter the mounting credibility risks, noting in a recent LinkedIn post<\/a>: \u201cGrowth matters, but growth without integrity isn\u2019t growth at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview, McQueen said that heading off the problem will require developing and enforcing standards to truly ensure that carbon removal projects deliver the climate benefits promised. McQueen added that to gain trust, the industry needs to earn buy-in from the communities in which these projects are built and avoid the environmental and health impacts that power plants and heavy industry have historically inflicted on disadvantaged communities.<\/p>\n

Getting it right will require governments to take a larger role in the sector than just subsidizing it, argues David Ho, a professor at the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa who focuses\u00a0 on ocean-based carbon removal.<\/p>\n

He says there should be a massive, multinational research drive to determine the most effective ways of mopping up the atmosphere with minimal environmental or social harm, likening it to a Manhattan Project (minus the whole nuclear bomb bit).<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re serious about doing this, then let\u2019s make it a government effort,\u201d he says, \u201cso that you can try out all the things, determine what works and what doesn\u2019t, and you don\u2019t have to please your VCs or concentrate on developing [intellectual property] so you can sell yourself to a fossil-fuel company.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Ho adds that there\u2019s a moral imperative for the world\u2019s historically biggest climate polluters to build and pay for the carbon-sucking and storage infrastructure required to draw down billions of tons of greenhouse gas. That\u2019s because the world\u2019s poorest, hottest nations, which have contributed the least to climate change, will nevertheless face the greatest dangers from intensifying heat waves, droughts, famines, and sea-level rise.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should be seen as waste management for the waste we\u2019re going to dump on the Global South,\u201d he says, \u201cbecause they\u2019re the people who will suffer the most from climate change.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cReliable assurance that a project\u2019s declared ton of carbon savings equates to a real ton of emissions removed,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-248930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}