Managing UK Agriculture with Rock Dust Could Absorb Up to 45 Per Cent of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Needed for Net-Zero
Published:05 May2022 Source:University of Sheffield
Adding rock dust to UK agricultural soils could absorb up to 45 per cent of the atmospheric carbon dioxide needed to reach net zero, according to a major new study led by scientists at the University of Sheffield.
The study, led by Dr Euripides Kantzas, a senior research associate in the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation at the University, provides the first detailed analysis of the potential and costs of greenhouse gas removal by enhanced weathering in the UK over the next 50 years.