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🗞️ Driving the news: The Bezos Earth Fund and RMI have released a comprehensive roadmap, Scaling Technological Greenhouse Gas Removal: A Global Roadmap to 2050, detailing 83 initiatives to scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies
• The roadmap identifies three key phases: technology emergence (2024–2030), adoption (2030–2040), and expansion (2040–2050)
• The plan calls for retiring 10 gigatons of CO2 annually by 2050 to avert severe climate impacts
🔭 The context: The roadmap builds on insights from a workshop involving over 500 CDR experts, convened by the Bezos Earth Fund, U.S. Department of Energy, and Stanford University
• It focuses on technology-driven CDR, including air, ocean, land, and rock-based methods, and also addresses methane and nitrous oxide removal
• It integrates scientific, social, financial, and regulatory considerations to ensure comprehensive deployment
🌍 Why it matters for the planet: This roadmap provides a structured framework for scaling CDR technologies, a critical complement to emissions reduction efforts
• Achieving its targets could significantly reduce greenhouse gases, mitigating the worst consequences of climate change
• The inclusion of diverse technologies and collaboration across sectors underscores the importance of immediate, coordinated global action
⏭️ What's next: The roadmap emphasizes collaboration among governments, funders, industries, researchers, media, and civil society to implement its initiatives
• Key milestones in the next decade include accelerating technology innovation and creating market and policy frameworks to support widespread adoption
• Long-term success hinges on sustained funding and global commitments
💬 One quote: “The success of a plan of this magnitude will require buy-in, commitments, and execution from different actors from the greenhouse gas removal sector.” – Roadmap authors
📈 One stat: The roadmap targets the global removal of 10 gigatons of CO2 annually by 2050.
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