{"id":29756,"date":"2024-08-28T12:16:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T10:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=29756"},"modified":"2024-08-28T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T10:17:26","slug":"studies-find-limits-of-storing-co%e2%82%82-underground-in-the-fight-against-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/08\/28\/studies-find-limits-of-storing-co%e2%82%82-underground-in-the-fight-against-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Study finds limits to storing CO\u2082 underground in the fight against climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current international scenarios for limiting global warming to less than 1.5 degrees by the end of the century rely on technologies that remove carbon dioxide (CO\u00a0<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0) from the Earth&#039;s atmosphere faster than humans release it. This means removing CO\u00a0<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0at a rate of 1-30 gigatons per year by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>However, estimates of the speed with which these technologies can be deployed have been highly speculative. Findings from a new study led by researchers at Imperial College London now show that existing projections are unlikely to be feasible at current growth rates.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that up to 16 gigatons of CO2 could be stored by 2050\u00a0<sub>under<\/sub> land annually. However, achieving this goal would require a huge increase in storage capacity and scaling in the coming decades, which is not expected given the current pace of investment, development and deployment. (<em>Imperial College London, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-08-limits-underground-combat-climate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">phys.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current international scenarios for limiting global warming to less than 1.5 degrees by the end of the century rely on technologies that remove carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the Earth\u2019s atmosphere faster than humans are releasing it. This means removing CO 2 at a rate of 1\u201330 gigatonnes per year by 2050. However, estimates of the speed at which these technologies can be deployed have been highly speculative. Findings from [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}