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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

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degree C above preindustrial norms (World Meteorological Organization [WMO], 2017). Carbon removal is also a core feature of UN climate action plans (IPCC, 2005; IPCC, 2018; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC], the Paris Climate Agreement, n.d.). 2005 IPCC Carbon Capture and Storage Report. and Meyer.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

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On June 25-26, 1996, the European Council of Environment Ministers agreed during its meeting that “global average temperatures should not exceed 2 degrees above pre-industrial level and that therefore concentration levels lower than 550 ppm CO2 should guide global limitation and reduction efforts.” Limiting warming to 1.5

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