Removing CO₂ from the air will not solve the climate crisis, warns the UN

Industrial methods that promise to bury carbon dioxide in geological depths do not have sufficient capacity to compensate for the continued advance of the oil sector and are estimated to be exhausted in less than two centuries.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has published a technical report that addresses the imminent exceeding of the global warming limit set by the Paris Agreement. This phenomenon, known as overshoot, describes the period in which the global average temperature will exceed 1.5 °C in the coming decades before reversing its trend. Against this backdrop, the document proposes a more realistic and urgent approach to addressing the climate crisis. In addition, the organization views with deep skepticism technologies aimed at artificially removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, arguing that the priority should be to rapidly reduce emissions of polluting gases.

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