• Once deployed, it will take decades to reduce global temperatures because of the inertia in the climate system. We also won't know the counterfactual.
How will policymakers in rich countries convince voters to spend trillions of dollars on poor people decades in the future?
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At COP, the Global South wanted $1.3 trillion annually for clean energy transition and climate change adaptation, things that have immediate tangible results and clear counterfactuals.
Rich countries could barely get themselves to pledge $300 billion annually.
How are we ever going to finance CDR?
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