Babbage: How to remove carbon from the atmosphere

As the COP28 climate summit kicks off, countries will be assessing and renewing their efforts to cut carbon emissions. But to meet the goal of keeping warming well below 2°C, as set out at the Paris agreement eight years ago, carbon dioxide will also need to be removed from the atmosphere at an unprecedented scale. How can carbon capture technologies be made attractive and cost-effective, so that people will scale them up in the future? 

Host: Alok Jha, The Economist’s science and technology editor. Contributors: Oliver Morton, a senior editor at The Economist; Rachel Dobbs, our climate correspondent; Colin Hale, a chemical engineer at Imperial College London; Gavin Jackson, The Economist’s economics and finance correspondent.

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