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What is Geoengineering?

What is geoengineering? How do geoengineering solutions remove carbon or lower global temperatures?

Geoengineering can encompass many things but in the climate arena the most visible geoengineering solutions at present are methods of enhancing carbon sinks and also reducing ever so slightly the penetration of energy from the sun.

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Climate Change and Public Policy

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