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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 5.
Published in final edited form as: Energy Clim Chang. 2021 Dec;2:1–5. doi: 10.1016/j.egycc.2021.100043

Figure 1:

Figure 1:

Conceptual figure showing the implications of the scale of CDR in a zero-sum game. The greater the scale of CDR, the higher are CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and industry. With very low levels of CDR, achieving net-zero could be infeasible (which is shown by an “X” in the figure) (The White House, 2016).