Major step up in carbon capture and storage needed to keep warming below 2 °C
Other text in scientific journal, 2024

A feasibility analysis reveals that carbon capture and storage capacity might be able to expand fast enough to meet the requirements of 2 °C climate pathways but will unlikely meet those for 1.5 °C. Moreover, carbon capture and storage is unlikely to capture and store more than 600 Gt of CO2 over the twenty-first century, which has implications for the global carbon budget.

Climate Change

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental Policy

Author

Jessica Jewell

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Physical Resource Theory

University of Bergen

Tsimafei Kazlou

University of Bergen

Nature Climate Change

1758-678X (ISSN) 1758-6798 (eISSN)

Vol. 14 10 1022-1023

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Energy

Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)

Energy Systems

DOI

10.1038/s41558-024-02112-0

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12/3/2025