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Leveling the Playing Field for Open-System Carbon Removal

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Spotlighting the growing risks that we optimize CDR for the short run at the expense of long-run scalability

Note: This is the first in a multi-part series about big looming risks and flaws in the way we are collectively pursuing CDR pathway diversity—revolving around “open-system” pathways, quantification uncertainty, and scale—that Dai Ellis and I are writing together and publishing simultaneously on our respective blogs. It’s hard to overstate the mountain-climbing challenge in front of us if we are going to start removing many gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere by mid century. Among many other things, this Everest will require that we develop and optimize the many potential pathways to…

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