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EU cities plan to compensate for a fifth of their emissions through carbon removal, but few have thought through how

An analysis of 103 European cities' climate-neutral plans for 2030 (including 22 capital cities) shows that municipalities are planning to rely on carbon removal to compensate for about a fifth of their emissions. This would mean removing roughly 61 million tonnes of emissions from the atmosphere—cl...

EU cities plan to compensate for a fifth of their emissions through carbon removal, but few have thought through how
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An analysis of 103 European cities' climate-neutral plans for 2030 (including 22 capital cities) shows that municipalities are planning to rely on carbon removal to compensate for about a fifth of their emissions. This would mean removing roughly 61 million tonnes of emissions from the atmosphere—close to Austria's annual emissions.

Originally published at Phys.org

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