Sustainability limits needed for CO₂ removal

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI-Sciences Po), Paris, France.
² Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Gif sur Yvette, France.
³ School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
⁴ School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
⁵ Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, Avignon Université, Aix-en-Provence, France.
⁶ Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.
⁷ Sciences Po, Paris, France.
⁸ Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
⁹ Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, Germany.
¹⁰ Sustainability Economics of Human Settlements, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Alexandra Deprez et al. Science. 2024.

. 2024 Feb 2;383(6682):484-486.

doi: 10.1126/science.adj6171. Epub 2024 Feb 1.

¹ Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI-Sciences Po), Paris, France.
² Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Gif sur Yvette, France.
³ School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
⁴ School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
⁵ Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, Avignon Université, Aix-en-Provence, France.
⁶ Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.
⁷ Sciences Po, Paris, France.
⁸ Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
⁹ Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, Germany.
¹⁰ Sustainability Economics of Human Settlements, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Abstract

The true climate mitigation challenge is revealed by considering sustainability impacts.