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#CO2 emissions must be reduced, ideally to zero. That's clear - but is that even feasible? Definitely not without severe restrictions for industry. But there may be a much better solution: taking CO2 directly out of the atmosphere. So-called negative emissions - the solution to the climate problem? #cop28 Many thanks to Prof. Dr. Julia Pongratz for the interview! More on the topic: The earth that saves our world - rethinking agriculture: https://www.zdf.de/wissen/leschs-kosm... Carbon capture: How we remove CO2 from the air with geoengineering: https://www.zdf.de/br/planetb/page-vi... Will the North Sea become a CO2 repository? https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/wissen... Sources & further links: Human-caused CO2 emissions and natural sinks: Carbon Brief: Analysis: Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels hit record high in 2022, GCP, IEA, IPCC: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-... Negative emissions in Germany through deforestation: DStatis, https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pre... Federal Environment Agency https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/... Current CO2 removal: Smith et al. (University of Oxford): The state of CDR (2023) https://www.stateofcdr.org/ Holistic energy consumption of DACCS plants: NASEM, Negative Emission Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda, 2019 Climate scenarios, CO2 budget, quantitative negative emissions: 6th IPCC Assessment Report - AR6 https://www.de-ipcc.de/250.php Existing and plans for DACCS plants: Sara Budinis: Direct Air Capture (IEA), 2023 https://www.iea.org/energy-system/car... Share of DACCS in NETs: Breitschopf et al. (Fraunhofer ISI): Direct Air Capture and Storage (2023) https://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/content... Subscribe? Just click here: http://www.youtube.com/terrax_leschun... Terra X in the media library: https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terr... Leschs Kosmos in the media library: https://www.zdf.de/wissen/leschs-kosm... Terra X on Facebook - / zdfterrax Moderation: Harald Lesch Author:in: Jana Steuer, Victor Riley Editor: Victor Riley, Jana Steuer, Tobias Schultes Production: Florian Rehm, Andrea Böhmer Producer:in (objektiv media): Anne Westphal Camera: Thorsten Eifler Sound: Philippe Spangenberger Editing: Dennis Burneleit Thumbnail: David Weber Graphics: Dennis Burneleit / Kurzgesagt Music by Extreme Music & YouTube Audio Library This video is a production of ZDF, in cooperation with objektiv media.