Back in the early 2000s, Kenneth Möllersten, a Swedish chemical engineer, and Michael Obersteiner, an Oxford researcher, created the climate models that helped justify carbon removal technology. Today, the pair are warning that companies and governments are using it in a way that emboldens continued emissions increases. (Bloomberg)

Talking point: When carbon capture technology was conceived, it was viewed as a tool for removing past emissions. Möllersten and Obersteiner said that it has since become a way to cancel out future emissions, with companies using the tech to justify continued fossil fuel expansion. Their warnings come as policymakers and leaders gather in Brazil for the UN’s annual climate conference, COP30, and as governments sidestep their climate targets. The UN Environmental Program estimates that limiting global warming to 1.5 C is no longer plausible.