Carbon Sequestration: New tools for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)

Carbon Sequestration: New tools for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) is a lesson plan for teachers that are interested in adding some supplemental material to their climate change curriculum. This lesson has some climate change review, but is not designed as a core climate change lesson; rather this lesson is meant to be an extension activity for climate change. In this lesson students will learn about carbon sequestration, but more specifically they will learn about carbon dioxide removal. We are at the point where reducing or even eliminating most emissions is not enough to avoid the devastating outcomes from climate change. We need to find ways to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and this lesson introduces some new technological solutions for that carbon dioxide removal. The two CDR strategies that this lesson introduces are Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) as a form of terrestrial CDR, and gene edited crops as a form of biological CDR.