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Countries’ carbon removal plans not enough for 1.5C warming limit, study warns

Countries’ plans to take carbon dioxide back out of the atmosphere will not be enough to comply with goals to limit global warming to 1.5C, research warns.

have taken the UN’s approach of assessing the “emissions gap” between national climate protection plans and what is needed to limit warming to 1.5C as agreed under the global treaty – and applied it to moves to remove key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the

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