There is growing consensus within the energy community that net-zero technologies to help keep global temperatures from rising above the 1.5° C to 2° C target established in the 2015 Paris Agreement will be insufficient in achieving that goal, according to former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.
Moniz, who spoke at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) in Washington, D.C., Oct. 30 to discuss his organization’s report on CO2 removal technologies, also called negative emissions technologies, said, “We need to think about not only net-zero, but carbon dioxide removal and even reversal.”