Why carbon capture is seen as vital in climate fight but falling short

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The world’s top climate scientists have been clear: If we’re to avoid the most calamitous consequences of warming our planet, we must get as good at taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as we’ve been at putting it in. Even if solar and wind energy largely supplant fossil fuels, holding temperatures down will require capturing large amounts of emissions produced by activities that are hard to decarbonize, such as making cement. It will also require vacuuming huge amounts of carbon from the air. Today, projects devoted to these tasks are far from sufficient to approach those goals. And time is running out for carbon capture technologies to catch up to the challenge.

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