Cooling towers of a coal-fired power station in Tongling, Anhui province, China Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
China鈥檚 pledge to reach carbon neutrality by 2060 may depend on extracting greenhouse gases from the air at massive scales 鈥 on the order of 2.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide per year.
Chinese President Xi Jinping聽announced the聽ambitious target last month at the UN general assembly, saying that the country鈥檚 aim was 鈥渢o have CO2聽emissions peak before 2030鈥.
To do so would require significant use of negative emissions technologies, such as capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air…
