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To limit global temperature rise, agricultural costs of CO2 removal may be significant

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To limit global temperature rise, agricultural costs of CO2 removal may be significant

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To limit global temperature rise, agricultural costs of CO2 removal may be significant - requiring US retail prices increases of up to 41 percent for beef, 40 percent for milk, and 14 percent for rice - according to climate model.

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Article Title: Offsetting unabated agricultural emissions with CO2 removal to achieve ambitious climate targets

Funding: J.W. is funded through an ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship and acknowledges support from the ETH Foundation and the Uniscientia Foundation. The funders had no role in study design data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247887


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