{"664875":{"#nid":"664875","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Cutting Emissions Isn\u2019t Enough. We Need to Scrub Carbon Directly from the Air","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed: they would reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to limit warming of the earth\u2019s atmosphere to well below 2 degrees Celsius.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/unfccc.int\/process-and-meetings\/the-paris-agreement\/the-paris-agreement\u0022\u003EThe Paris Agreement\u003C\/a\u003E actually aims for 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels to avoid \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/cop\/whats-difference-between-15c-2c-global-warming-2021-11-07\/\u0022\u003Epotential catastrophic changes to our climate\u003C\/a\u003E. But it\u2019s become increasingly clear to climate scientists and policymakers that just reducing emissions is not enough.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe now know that we probably should have stopped putting massive amounts of CO2 in the air 10, 20, 30 years ago to prevent the climate from getting above 2 degrees C,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\/people\/christopher-w-jones\u0022\u003EChris Jones\u003C\/a\u003E, a chemical engineer at Georgia Tech. \u201cNow we\u0027ve waited so long to reduce our emissions that we need to develop technologies that are referred to as negative emissions technologies that remove CO2 from the atmosphere.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJones was one of a handful of scientists who co-authored a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nap.nationalacademies.org\/catalog\/25259\/negative-emissions-technologies-and-reliable-sequestration-a-research-agenda\u0022\u003Elandmark National Academies report in 2018 that outlined a variety of approaches to negative emissions.\u003C\/a\u003E Agricultural practices and forest management are options \u2014 essentially using nature\u2019s ability to grab carbon dioxide out of the air and lock it away in plants and soil. But Jones said we\u2019ll need quicker and more direct approaches.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe could plant billions of trees to do this, but there\u0027s not enough available land. And the trees don\u0027t grow fast enough for us to do this quickly enough to slow global warming at the rate required,\u201d said Jones, John F. Brock III School Chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThat\u0027s where direct air capture comes in: It\u0027s a chemical engineering way of designing a process that takes CO2 out of the air.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/01\/cutting-emissions-isnt-enough-we-need-scrub-carbon-directly-air\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full story on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew Direct Air Capture Center will leverage Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s leadership in a burgeoning field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"New Direct Air Capture Center will leverage Georgia Tech\u2019s leadership in a burgeoning field."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2023-01-19 14:04:32","changed_gmt":"2024-08-27 15:23:07","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"664874":{"id":"664874","type":"image","title":"Direct Air Capture - Ryan Lively, Chris Jones","body":null,"created":"1674136943","gmt_created":"2023-01-19 14:02:23","changed":"1674138138","gmt_changed":"2023-01-19 14:22:18","alt":"Postdoctoral fellow Poorandokht Kashkouli, seated at laptop, discusses test data from their direct air capture rig. Ryan Lively, left, and Chris Jones, pointing at laptop, stand next to the rig, which is a series of tubes and valves in a metal frame. 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