Scientists say that tackling climate change will require largescale carbon capture which could potentially be achieved via new technology or through protecting and enhancing existing natural ecosystems such as forests peatlands and soils. Last year the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC said that carbon capture is essential because even big cuts to emissions wont be enough to limit global warming.
Although some scientists warn that it could provide governments and industry with an unwarranted excuse to avoid the stringent emissions cuts that are needed to tackle climate change. Tierney says Mobile App Development Service microbial solutions should be harnessed to work in concert with other technologies and natural systems to suck CO out of the atmosphere.
Using microbes such as cyanobacteria and microalgae for deliberate carbon capture can be very promising says Kira Schipper a researcher at the Center for Sustainable Development at Qatar University than conventional crops which means they capture more carbon in the same timeframe she adds. Another benefit is that biomass produced by microbes can be grown on nonarable land and in seawater thereby not competing with food production she says.