Climate change: Large-scale CO2 removal facility set for Scotland
A large facility capable of extracting significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the air is being planned for north east Scotland.
The proposed plant would remove up to one million tonnes of CO2 every year - the same amount taken up by around 40 million trees.
It's at a very early stage of development - today's announcement is the beginning of the engineering and design of the plant.
However there are many hurdles, including planning and finance - and a site for the plant won't be selected until next year.
If it does go ahead it would be the biggest DAC facility in Europe and depending on the final configuration, could be the biggest in the world.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), if the world wants to stay safe, then the rise in global temperatures needs to be kept below 1.5C by the end of this century.
The IPCC says that rapid cuts in carbon from cars, home heating and almost every aspect of our lives will be needed over the next decade.
