A large facility capable of extracting significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the air is being planned for north east Scotland.
The proposed plant would remove up to one million tonnes of CO2 every year – the same amount taken up by around 40 million trees.
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The extracted gas could be stored permanently deep under the seabed off the Scottish coast.
But critics argue that technology isn’t a magic bullet for climate change.