The Santa Cruz Community Calendar
Santa Cruz County, California
Friday, October 18, 2024
The world is navigating the necessary transition away from polluting fuels toward clean energy, but many scientists believe we must also work to remove climate pollution that has already been dumped into the atmosphere. That's known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The call for CDR is only growing stronger as new analyses find that we're not on track to meet the Paris Agreement targets. At the same time, there are different viewpoints, especially about the engineered methods of removing carbon from the atmosphere that we must address.
In this second webinar of a six-part series, experts will provide an overview of the primary ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere, both natural and engineered. These include direct air capture, soil carbon management, afforestation, biochar, ocean CDR, biomass carbon removal and storage, and enhanced rock weathering. The webinar will explore:
• How much carbon each CDR method could potentially remove
• How permanently the removed carbon can be stored
• Scalability and cost of CDR
• How CDR will impact communities and local ecosystems
• The unknowns and questions about each of these methods
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