Giving Compass' Take:

• To combat climate change, there are now more ways to support sucking carbon from the air in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

• Scientists believe that to avoid the worst effects of climate change, it will require significant changes to every aspect of society. Supporting power plants that are sucking carbon is becoming an accessible way for individuals to take climate action. How can donors help expand this practice? 

• Learn more about how to tackle climate change without government help. 

Transforming the entire economy to get to net zero emissions, something that scientists say is necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, will require massive and complicated transformations of nearly every aspect of society.

But if you want to act on climate change now as an individual—and you’re already doing the main work of pressuring the government and companies to make systemic changes—it’s possible to subscribe to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and turn it into a rock that can be stored underground.

The subscription is available on one of several new platforms that sell the service of carbon removal. “There’s absolutely been an influx of platforms that allow people to purchase either offsets or other types of credits focused on carbon removal,” says Giana Amador, co-founder and managing director at Carbon180, a nonprofit focused on the new industry of carbon removal. “I think it’s happening because, one, there’s just an increased interest in the solutions, and two, folks are trying to harness the power of individuals to really help scale some of the solutions.”

It’s critical to reduce emissions now, whether those emissions are coming from the world’s remaining coal power plants, the transportation system, or manufacturing.

Read the full article about sucking carbon from the air by Adele Peters at Fast Company.