From City to Sink: Urban Carbon Removal as Promise and Practice with Duncan McLaren

Duncan McLaren, “From City to Sink: Urban Carbon Removal as Promise and Practice,” Cities@Tufts, March 11, 2025.

Climate policy increasingly relies on techniques to remove CO2 from the environment as a supplement to cutting emissions: counter-balancing residual emissions in ‘net-zero’ and reducing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 to safer levels. In this talk, Duncan will survey how cities are engaging with carbon removal – reviewing the realistic scope of possibilities such as carbon negative building materials, and carbon removal through urban waste management; and suggest ways in which urban carbon removal could be governed to contribute to goals of justice and sustainability.