Geological Net Zero and the need for disaggregated accounting for carbon sinks

2024/11/18 by Myles Allen, Myles R. Allen, David J. Frame +30 · 2 voices · 83 citations
Engineering · Environmental Science · #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics #Carbon sink #Climate change #Ecology #Economics #Engineering #Environmental protection #Environmental science #Fossil fuel #Global warming #Greenhouse gas #Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis #Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena #Natural resource economics #Tonne #Waste management #Zero emission

paper · doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08326-8

published in Nature 638(8050), 343-350 (Nature Portfolio)

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