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Researchers have found that enhanced rock weathering – which uses rock dust to sequester carbon in soil - could remove up to a gigaton of carbon by 2100 if adopted globally.

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One of the most recent technologies for sequestering carbon, enhanced rock weathering could remove up to a gigaton of carbon by 2100 if adopted globally.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
  • Climate Change
Ben Houlton and Ram Ramanathan stand together

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At last week’s Vatican climate change meeting, Ben Houlton (CALS) spoke on how the global agricultural sector could remove large volumes of atmospheric carbon.

  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
  • Global Development Section
Ram Ramanathan on a pier

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Climate scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan, who first discovered in the 1970s the climate-altering impacts of certain carbon chemicals in the atmosphere and who has been a driving force to enact policies to curb global warming for four decades, is joining Cornell’s Department of Global Development.
  • Global Development Section
  • Climate Change
  • Global Development