Could machines sucking carbon out of the air help fight the climate crisis? – podcast

Meeting the Paris agreement's goal of keeping global temperature rises to below 2C by the end of the century requires drastic cuts to fossil fuel use and carbon emissions. The problem is, even if we do this we'll still need to draw down the carbon dioxide that's emitted in the meantime. To find out how, Shivani Dave speaks to Phoebe Weston and Damian Carrington about the natural and synthetic ways of pulling CO₂ out of the atmosphere