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Not to any meaningful degree: the heating from CO2 emitted when your burn coal for energy is about 100000x more than the heat produced from the burning.
That's why the big action which needs to happen is to stop burning fossil fuels.
I was thinking about heat pumps. 300% efficiency
They are electric and could be carbon negative depending on the source of electricity
Unless it's BECCS, the best they're going to be is not adding CO2 to the atmosphere. That's better than burning stuff, but not actually removing CO2