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Carbon-dioxide removal

The new economy net zero needs

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It is vital to climate stabilisation, remarkably challenging and systematically ignored

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The lost heart of net zero

Carbon-dioxide removal needs more attention

It is vital to climate stabilisation, remarkably challenging and systematically ignored

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St Augustine’s climate policy

The temptations of deferred removals

Carbon dioxide removals must start at scale sooner than people think

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On the other hand...

The many prices of carbon dioxide

Not all tonnes are created equal

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Thy axe shall harm it not

Trees alone will not save the world

But better markets and better monitoring will let them do more

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All the myriad ways

Carbon-dioxide-removal options are multiplying

Many are intriguing; none is cheap, scalable and easily verified

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The carbon economy

A net-zero world needs new markets and institutions

It is just possible they will be built in time

Carbon-dioxide removal

Sources and acknowledgments

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China’s armed forces

Unknown soldiers

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Overestimating China’s armed forces would be dangerous, argues Jeremy Page

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