Are carbon removal targets unrealistic about land requirements?

A major report published ahead of COP27 analysed national climate policies and found that "over-reliance on carbon removals could push ecosystems, land rights and food security to the brink."

Alasdair spoke to Dr. Kate Dooley, one of the Land Gap Report authors and a Research Fellow at Melbourne University’s Climate & Energy College, to hear about what policymakers are getting wrong.

Further reading from Dr. Dooley: 

• Read the full Land Gap Report. 
• 'Nature restoration no substitute for cutting fossil fuels'; Pursuit, 2022
• 'No more excuses: restoring nature is not a silver bullet for global warming, we must cut emissions outright'; The Conversation, 2022
• 'Forests can’t handle all the net-zero emissions plans – companies and countries expect nature to offset too much carbon'; The Conversation, 2022
• 'COP27: Urgent need to respect human rights in all climate change action, say UN experts', 2022

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