Society will likely need to extract most current CO₂ emissions via geoengineering.
Bob Litterman · Sustainable Investing 3: Bob Litterman – Pricing Climate Risk (Capital Allocators, EP.141) · Jun 15, 2020 · at 35:34
Bob Litterman discusses the necessity of carbon removal and geoengineering alongside emissions reduction.
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“We're probably going to have to pull most of the CO₂ that we're putting into the atmosphere here today back out.”
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