There’s a growing opportunity in carbon dioxide supplied from direct air capture. Christian Annesley talks to Matt Atwood of DAC company Aircapture about progress, and looks at the wider context for scaling up CO2 that’s collected from the air
Where does carbon dioxide (CO₂) from direct air capture sit in the CO₂ ecosystem today?
It’s something that is important to understand, since DAC-derived CO₂ needs to surge in the years ahead as part of meeting global climate goals.
The maths today already shows that carbon dioxide removal – that is, systems that remove carbon directly from the air, whether through direct air capture or through improvements to natural ecosystems – needs to be at the billions-of-tonnes per year scale by the mid-century. Carbon removal is needed not only to balance out residual emissions that cannot be or are not eliminated by 2050, but also to reduce the high concentration of carbon dioxide in the air that is already with us.
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