How Denmark and Finland plan to become ‘negative emitters’
How Denmark and Finland plan to become ‘negative emitters’
Some nations want to remove more pollution than they produce. That will take giving nature a boost.
Dan Jørgensen, Denmark's environment minister, acknowledges there is a long road ahead.
“Obviously it’s a big step, especially if you wanted to deploy technology that’s not yet been fully developed,” he says.
We aren't doing shit in Denmark, just hoping someone invents something
I don't think I need to explain that this is simply not true.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Group of Negative Emitters was launched on Sunday in Dubai by Denmark, Finland and Panama, and aims to reach that goal by slashing emissions, protecting and expanding forests and investing in new technologies.
It will cut emissions, especially in the energy sector, expand forests, and invest in carbon capture and removal technology.
“Decades of carbon capture have shown it to be ineffective, uneconomic, and risky for communities," says Nikki Reisch, climate and energy program director at the Center for International Environmental Law.
Unlike Panama and Finland, Denmark does not have vast forests and sees new technology as crucial to reaching its targets.
“When we decided to make the first offshore wind farm in 1991, a lot of people were shaking their heads thinking that was crazy because it’s far too expensive,” recalls Jørgensen.
Finland’s Mykkänen says carbon capture might still sound like “voodoo”, but he’s confident the technology will be normalised within 10 to 15 years as countries invest in it and costs are driven down.
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But like, they're still gonna export a ton of oil and import a ton of finished goods right?
Export a ton of oil? Are you thinking of Norway?
Finland doesn't have any oil and Denmark is only the 40th largest exporter of oil.
Oh, y'know what, I'm half misinformed, they do for the record export a ton of oil (refined petroleum is their #1 export but I believe they don't actually produce the crude, it looks like they import crude and export refined oil and products, which you could make a decent case could be a carbon neutral process.