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Shell Quest Carbon capture facility, Fort Saskatchewan (Source: Pembina Institute)
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Washington Post
We're Placing Far Too Much Hope in Pulling Carbon Dioxide Out of the Air, Scientists Warn

Overreliance on negative emissions as solution could prevent global climate stabilization

While noting that carbon capture and storage (CCS) could be combined with biomass to produce negative net emissions, MIT Energy Initiative/Joint Program Senior Research Engineer and CCS expert Howard Herzog argues that “the focus of today should be on mitigation as opposed to worrying about negative emissions sometime in the future.”

 

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Source: AGAGE.mit.edu
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Nature
Rwanda: From Killing Fields to Technopolis

Two decades after the genocide in Rwanda, the country is harnessing science and technology to rebuild its economy

In 2017, after earning his PhD, MIT Joint Program-affiliated graduate student Jimmy Gasore aims to return to Rwanda to continue work on the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) climate observatory that he helped establish.