Sources and acknowledgments

This special report was reported and written by Catherine Brahic, Gavin Jackson, Oliver Morton and Vijay Vaitheeswaran.

As well as the people mentioned in the text, the authors would like to thank:

Brad Ack, Savita Bowman, Holly Jean Buck, Matteo Cargnello, Joshua Elliot, Jane Flegal, Oliver Geden, Kyle Gertridge, David Hayes, Kiddi Hrobjartsson, Eamon Jubbway, David Keith, Florian Kraxner, Jim Mann, Will Marshall, Richard Martin, Noah McQueen, Eli Mitchell-Larson, Daniel Pike, Ryan Orbuch, Artur Runge-Metzger, Robbie Schingler, Stephen Smith, Christian Theuer, Michael Thompson, Gabrielle Walker, Jonathan Weiner and Jennifer Wilcox.

Further information on this subject can be found in a number of helpful reports including:

• The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal 2022
• The CDR Primer

The Economist Group makes purchases from a number of carbon-dioxide-removal and carbon-credit providers as part of its sustainability commitment, including two mentioned in this report: Climeworks and Running Tide. A full list of such purchases is available on page 28 of the group’s Sustainability Report.