Nature Reviews Clean Technology, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s44359-026-00218-6Carbon dioxide removal has been described both as a mitigation necessity and as a risk to mitigation ambition or sustainability in the academic literature. This Comment examines the assumptions underlying carbon dioxide removal narratives and investigates whether they are reconcilable to inform the focus of research and policy.

Nature Reviews Clean Technology, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s44359-026-00218-6Carbon dioxide removal has been described both as a mitigation necessity and as a risk to mitigation ambition or sustainability in the academic literature. This Comment examines the assumptions underlying carbon dioxide removal narratives and investigates whether they are reconcilable to inform the focus of research and policy.

Nature Reviews Clean Technology, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s44359-026-00218-6Carbon dioxide removal has been described both as a mitigation necessity and as a risk to mitigation ambition or sustainability in the academic literature. This Comment examines the assumptions underlying carbon dioxide removal narratives and investigates whether they are reconcilable to inform the focus of research and policy.

Carbon dioxide removal has been described both as a mitigation necessity and as a risk to mitigation ambition or sustainability in the academic literature. This Comment examines the assumptions underl...

The world is currently experiencing what is expected to become the strongest El Niño on record – dubbed a “super El Niño” by many.

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There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

Enhanced Weathering (EW) is an emerging Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) approach within a growing portfolio of mitigation strategies, offering the potential for durable CDR alongside agronomic co-benefit...

Researchers from Imperial College London have contributed to a major international climate assessment showing that the Earth is accumulating heat at...

Here the authors show that a common interpretation of the Paris Agreement’s ‘well below 2° C’ target is changing with time, which could lead to higher overall warming. They propose that using median t...

Carbon removal strategies may conflict with biodiversity conservation, but careful choices could bring benefits.

Abstract. Scenarios serve as a critical tool in climate change analysis, enabling the exploration of future evolution of the climate system, climate impacts, and the human system (including mitigation...

Carbon removal strategies may conflict with biodiversity conservation, but careful choices could bring benefits.

Carbon removal strategies may conflict with biodiversity conservation, but careful choices could bring benefits.

Planting trees is a vital strategy to combat both climate change and the biodiversity crisis. As forests grow, they sponge carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and provide renewed habitat for…

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The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) are a set of scenarios that describe potential future developments in society, economics, and demographics until the end of the 21st century. This Explorer pre...

A spatial assessment of global decarbonization scenarios reveals that land allocated for carbon dioxide removal substantially overlaps with areas of high biodiversity importance. The implications of s...

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) plays an important role in decarbonization pathways to meet climate goals, but some methods are land-intensive. Multimodel analysis reveals conflicts between biodiversity ...