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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Group of Negative Emitters was launched on Sunday in Dubai by Denmark, Finland and Panama, and aims to reach that goal by slashing emissions, protecting and expanding forests and investing in new technologies.
It will cut emissions, especially in the energy sector, expand forests, and invest in carbon capture and removal technology.
“Decades of carbon capture have shown it to be ineffective, uneconomic, and risky for communities," says Nikki Reisch, climate and energy program director at the Center for International Environmental Law.
Unlike Panama and Finland, Denmark does not have vast forests and sees new technology as crucial to reaching its targets.
“When we decided to make the first offshore wind farm in 1991, a lot of people were shaking their heads thinking that was crazy because it’s far too expensive,” recalls Jørgensen.
Finland’s Mykkänen says carbon capture might still sound like “voodoo”, but he’s confident the technology will be normalised within 10 to 15 years as countries invest in it and costs are driven down.
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