To avoid the devastating effects of climate change, we must begin actively removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as soon as possible, scientists claim.
Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is not enough to limit global warming to a level that wouldn’t risk young people’s future, research found.
Instead, nations must now look to geoengineering policies like replenishing forests or chemically altering the oceans to absorb more carbon dioxide.
Without geoengineering policies, today’s young people will one day have to spend up to £440 trillion ($575 tn) on technologies to extract carbon dioxide from the air, the study found.’
Read more: Cutting emissions isn’t enough: We must remove CO2 from the atmosphere as soon as possible to avoid extreme climate change, warn scientists

To avoid the devastating effects of climate change, we must begin actively removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as soon as possible, scientists claim.
Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is not enough to limit global warming to a level that wouldn’t risk young people’s future, research found.
Instead, nations must now look to geoengineering policies like replenishing forests or chemically altering the oceans to absorb more carbon dioxide.
Without geoengineering policies, today’s young people will one day have to spend up to £440 trillion ($575 tn) on technologies to extract carbon dioxide from the air, the study found.’
Read more: Cutting emissions isn’t enough: We must remove CO2 from the atmosphere as soon as possible to avoid extreme climate change, warn scientists