Legal limits to the use of CO2 removal

Legal limits to the use of CO₂ removal

Science. 2023 Nov 17;382(6672):772-774. doi: 10.1126/science.adi9332. Epub 2023 Nov 16.

Rupert F Stuart-Smith¹, Lavanya Rajamani², Joeri Rogelj^{3

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5}, Thom Wetzer^{1

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¹ Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁴ Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁵ Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.

Climate targets that depend heavily on CO₂ removal may contravene international law.