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Too Many Companies Are Banking on Carbon Capture to Reach Net Zero

There's only so much land available to plant new trees, and most other methods are expensive and difficult.

De Beers Studies Soaking Carbon Into Diamond-Mine Waste Rock
Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg
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As governments and companies jostle to show how committed they are to fighting global warming, plans to take carbon dioxide out of the air are becoming a giant loophole — just as experts have warned for years.