Britain to Start ‘World Leading’ Trials to Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Air With Trees and Rocks It’s exciting. But experts have insisted it’s no substitute for reducing carbon emissions. Why Global Citizens Should Care The UN’s Global Goal 13 calls on countries to curb their emissions and invest in carbon removal technologies to achieve goals set under the Paris climate agreement. Some of these methods are low-technology like planting trees and others, like direct air capture, are cutting-edge. You can join us by taking action It sounds like science fiction — extracting carbon dioxide from the air, just like magic.