Inaction on climate change risks leaving future generations $530 trillion in debt

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BECCS technologies have been touted as a means of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change, but as James Dyke argues the costs of deployment would likely be gargantuan in scale

By continuing to delay significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we risk handing young people alive today a bill of up to US$535 trillion. This would be the cost of the "negative emissions" technologies...

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