HIBT Lab! Climeworks: Jan Wurzbacher

Hello and welcome to how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. So most everyone has heard the grim predictions about climate change that In order to keep our planet from warming more than four degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century, We have to reduce carbon emissions by more than half.

And we have to do that by twenty fifty. But that's not all. And I'm not trying to depress you here, but It won't be enough to just cut our global carbon emissions in half. just to keep our planet from getting unsustainably warm over the next fifty yeah?

We also have to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. So To be clear, not only do we have to stop producing it, we also have to suck it out of the air. In fact, we have to suck a lot of it out of the air. The IPCC, the United Nations group that represents the scientific consensus on this stuff,

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