Progress on the path to gigatonne-scale carbon removal

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If you squint hard enough there's a path to carbon removal at a gigatonne scale - but it’s far from guaranteed, writes Shopify's Mitchel Selby

Picture this: The year is 2050, the world has reduced emissions as much as it can, but there's still way too much carbon in the atmosphere, with no technologies operating at scale to pull it back out....

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