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mitigation of climate change > energy transition > decarbonisation > carbon dioxide removal > carbon sequestration
mitigation of climate change > environmental transition > greenhouse gas removal > carbon dioxide removal > carbon sequestration
mitigation of climate change > geoengineering > carbon dioxide removal > carbon sequestration

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carbon sequestration  

Definition

  • Carbon sequestration is the long-term removal, capture, or sequestration of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to slow or reverse atmospheric CO2 pollution and to mitigate or reverse climate change. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is naturally captured from the atmosphere through biological, chemical, and physical processes. These changes can be accelerated through changes in land use and agricultural practices, such as converting crop and livestock grazing land into land for non-crop fast growing plants. Artificial processes have been devised to produce similar effects, including large-scale, artificial capture and sequestration of industrially produced CO2 using subsurface saline aquifers, reservoirs, ocean water, aging oil fields, or other carbon sinks, bio-energy with carbon capture and storage, biochar, ocean fertilization, enhanced weathering, and direct air capture when combined with storage. The likely need for CDR (carbon dioxide removal) has been publicly expressed by a range of individuals and organizations involved with climate change issues, including IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri, the UNFCCC executive secretary Christiana Figueres, and the World Watch Institute. Institutions with major programs focusing on CDR include the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, and the Climate Decision Making Center, an international collaboration operated out of Carnegie-Mellon University's Department of Engineering and Public Policy. (Source: DBpedia)

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  • carbon storage
  • carbon uptake
  • uptake of carbon

In other languages

  • séquestration du carbone

    French

  • piégeage du carbone
  • piégeage du CO2
  • séquestration du dioxyde de carbone
  • stockage du carbone

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/CHC-FGKJWMS5-F

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