Carbon Removal Firms See Opportunity in U.N. Climate Report

Scientists and entrepreneurs developing ways to suck carbon pollution from the air see validation in a United Nations’ new climate report, which they hope will lead to greater investor support and more research dollars.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report is the most prominent unequivocal declaration that carbon removal—cleansing the sky of possibly decades worth of fossil fuel pollution and storing it safely forever—will be required to avoid some of the worst consequences of climate change. But scientists are deeply skeptical that it will make much of a difference.

After the report was published ...