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Someone on July 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Potential large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced roc...

“In principle, removing a ton of CO2 needs to be cheaper than the cost of adding a ton of CO2 (in Germany, currently around 10€/ton, I believe).”

I think it’s around $25 or €25 at the moment (neither https://ember-climate.org/carbon-price-viewer/ nor https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/co2-european... are clear about the currency)

The EU emission trading system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Emission_Tradin...), isn’t perfect, but it is having some effect, and restrictions are getting tightened over time.

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