carbon dioxide removal

The ocean has the greatest capacity of any system on Earth to take up vast amounts of carbon. The Southern Ocean has the highest potential for carbon capture.

In Australia’s history of climate change policy, there’s been a few well-placed spoilers, backed by vested interests, who have thrown stones and kept good policy off the table. But there is a growing wave of public support for action. And at the end of the day, all pollies need that support to get re-elected. Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells provide a timeline of Australia’s acknowledgement of climate change.

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face. While governments debate the future of coal-burning power stations, carbon dioxide continues to be released into the atmosphere. We need innovative strategies to capture it. Actively manufacturing minerals such as nesquehonite is one possible approach. It has applications in building and construction, and making it requires removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.