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China’s 2060 net-zero goal needs large-scale negative emissions tech

29 October 2020

China pledged last month to reach carbon neutrality by 2060, but to do so may require extracting 2.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide from the air each year
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Biobank to house 800 coral species so we can restore reefs in future

28 October 2020

The Living Coral Biobank plans to house more than 800 species of the world’s hard corals as an insurance policy in case we need to rebuild reefs in future

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