Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C
Jun 13, 2026 · 32 min · 8 segments
Professor Michael Obersteiner is one of the scientists who popularised carbon capture - now he's warning that we'll need to run it for 300 years at a cost of up to 10% of global GDP - and the world…
Michael ObersteinerGuest
Laurie LaybournHost
But then we triggered already so much climate change such that we need to undo our historical sins and kind of the emissions while we go to net zero for 300 years.
We are going into an overshoot and overshoot meaning an overshoot of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and thereby overshoot in temperature.
So people really need to understand we need to go and develop a net negative carbon economy.
And currently there is not even a discussion in the climate negotiations that we need to create something like this.
But then we triggered already so much climate change such that we need to undo our historical sins and kind of the emissions while we go to net zero for 300 years.
We are going into an overshoot and overshoot meaning an overshoot of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and thereby overshoot in temperature.
So people really need to understand we need to go and develop a net negative carbon economy.
And currently there is not even a discussion in the climate negotiations that we need to create something like this.
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