Study: Businesses should plant trees while deciding which CO2 removal tech to bet on

Stuart Stone
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EXCLUSIVE: Tree planting found to outperform high-tech and high-cost carbon capture - but multi-faceted carbon removal approach still crucial to tackling future climate impacts

Planting trees currently delivers the most cost-effective and immediately deployable means of removing carbon from the atmosphere, having been found to dramatically outperform expensive technological alternatives...

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