How to best clear the air of carbon to save a planet in peril
BKV Carbon Ventures health and safety advisor Adam Pope looks on at a compression station that is part of a carbon capture and sequestration process in Bridgeport, Texas, Thursday, May 29, 2025. AP Photo/LM Otero
According to the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from the United Nations climate change task force, it is recommended that six gigatons of carbon dioxide be removed from the atmosphere by 2050. To learn about different methods of carbon capture, we talked with Kevin O’Brien, director of the Net-Zero Center of Excellence at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Carmen Ugarte, professor in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Interview by Maddie Stover, doctoral student in physics and Trent Ford, Illinois State Climatologist at the University of Illinois’ Prairie Research Institute.
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