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23 Apr 2025
Research article |  | 23 Apr 2025

The effectiveness of agricultural carbon dioxide removal using the University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model

Rebecca Chloe Evans and H. Damon Matthews

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To mitigate our impact on the climate, we must both drastically reduce emissions and perform carbon dioxide removal (CDR). We simulated agriculture as a form of CDR under three future climate scenarios to find out how the climate responds to CDR when the carbon is not permanently stored. We found that agricultural CDR is much more effective at reducing global temperatures if done in a low-emissions scenario and at a high rate, and it becomes less effective as removal continues. 
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