Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is often treated as a simple balancing act: take as much CO2 out of the air as we put in, and the climate will stabilize. But beyond carbon accounting, CDR affects the climate system in other, less-understood ways. Those impacts matter for policymakers, investors, and developers deciding how and whether to scale these technologies.
In this webinar, Kirsten Zickfeld and Isabel Dove from Simon Fraser University shared the latest science on how CDR influences the carbon cycle and global temperatures. They also explored potential non-carbon impacts of large-scale deployment, such as land-use competition and fertilizer use.
This session is part of the CanCO2Re webinar series, which brings together experts from across disciplines to advance Canada's understanding of carbon dioxide removal. The series is a program of the CanCO2Re initiative, a national research effort that connects researchers across 11 fields of study, from engineering and climate science to law, economics, and communications, through institutions including the University of Calgary, University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Simon Fraser University, and the Pembina Institute.
