Adding rock dust to UK agricultural soil could absorb 45% of CO2 needed to reach net-zero

The study, led by Dr Euripides Kantzas, a senior research associate in the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation at university of sheffield published a data that represents cost and potential of enhanced rock weathering in removal of greenhouse gas emission by 2050. Costs of carbon removal are estimated to be around £200 per tonne of CO2 currently, falling to half that by 2050 - making it highly competitive relative to other carbon dioxide removal options. author shows that, if we add rock dust to agricultural soil of UK rather than imported fertilizers, then it can absorb approx 45% of atmospheric carbon di oxide needed to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emission by 2050, i.e. 6-30 million tones of carbon di oxide.

there are lot of benefits, we will not be depended on imported fertilizers, which will also improve health area and adding rock dust will rise demand of rock weathering which will provide employment to even farmers and labors.

Research identifies substantial co-benefits that include mitigation of nitrous oxide, the third most important greenhouse gas, and widespread reversal of soil acidification caused by intensification of agriculture.

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