It is very simple. If companies want to use air carbon removal, they should be forced to do that for all of their emissions. No cheap carbon credits, but real proper removal. I am fully aware that that costs $500/t or so, but that happens to be the real carbon price.
If they do have a problem with that then they can always stop emitting.
It seems like if a company was actually going to try to remove all carbon that they emitted, it’d be a HELL of a lot easier to just capture emissions directly at the major sources and capture it then. For things like power plants and refineries that’s a lot fewer sources to filter than the entire atmosphere.
It is very simple. If companies want to use air carbon removal, they should be forced to do that for all of their emissions. No cheap carbon credits, but real proper removal. I am fully aware that that costs $500/t or so, but that happens to be the real carbon price.
If they do have a problem with that then they can always stop emitting.
It seems like if a company was actually going to try to remove all carbon that they emitted, it’d be a HELL of a lot easier to just capture emissions directly at the major sources and capture it then. For things like power plants and refineries that’s a lot fewer sources to filter than the entire atmosphere.