Comment on greenhouse gas removal report

Richard Black comments on study by the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering

By George Smeeton

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Commenting on a new report on greenhouse gas removal, published by the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, Richard Black, director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said:

Reforestation can be an effective way of reducing atmospheric CO2 levels. Image: Jon Sullivan, creative commons licence
Reforestation can be an effective way of reducing atmospheric CO2 levels. Image: Jon Sullivan, creative commons licence

“This is a crucially important report in that it shows the UK can take its carbon emissions down to net zero by around mid-century, and can do so affordably.

“If anything, it’s over-estimated the amount of negative emissions that the UK will need, and yet still concludes that we can deliver.

“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected to say next month that meeting the Paris Agreement targets means reaching net zero globally by 2050, after which the Government will take new formal advice from the Committee on Climate Change. So this report showing it’s possible couldn’t have come at a more opportune time.”