A “double-edged sword” - the reduction of soil available phosphorus by increases in atmospheric CO2       c)okugawa/Getty Images   Carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake by photosynthesis allows crops to grow biomass. Crops are expected to produce more biomass with a higher CO2 concentration. This is the CO2 fertilization effect widely known in the scientific community.

An international collaboration involving the LSCE (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ) recommends the earliest possible deployment of these technologies on a large scale. If postponed to the latter half of this century, the available biomass production would be largely reduced by climate change, jeopardizing the goal of containing global warming to 2°C by 2100, and potentially leading to food shortages. https://www.cea.

.. ​For the first time ever, an international collaboration involving the LSCE (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ) is providing a global view of large CO2 plumes attributable to fossil fuels through satellite observations.