Opportunities and Risks of Scaling Up Carbon Dioxide Removal, with Gregory Nemet

Published: Feb. 27, 2023, midnight

In this week\u2019s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Gregory Nemet, a professor at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison, about technologies and natural processes that can remove carbon dioxide from Earth\u2019s atmosphere. Nemet discusses efforts in the public and private sectors to deploy new technologies, benefits and costs of different methods of carbon dioxide removal, and the risks and challenges of using carbon dioxide removal to reach global climate goals.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cThe State of Carbon Dioxide Removal\u201d by Stephen M. Smith, Oliver Geden, Jan C. Minx, and Gregory F. Nemet; https://www.stateofcdr.org/\n\n\u201cScrubbing the Sky: Inside the Race to Cool the Planet\u201d by Paul McKendrick; https://www.figure1publishing.com/book/scrubbing-the-sky/\n\n\u201cPurple Mountains\u201d film; https://www.purplemountainsfilm.com/