by Helen Bunting | May 27, 2025
Geological carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which stores carbon permanently, is necessary to reach durable net zero. However, CDR faces numerous challenges in scaling up, including demand creation, supply promotion, and a need for better regulatory frameworks. This...
by Helen Bunting | Nov 19, 2024
In November 2024, Professor Colin Snape, who leads the Biochar Demonstrator project, and Dr Steve Smith, Executive Director of CO2RE, wrote to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero to...
by Emily Cracknell | Oct 24, 2024
Alongside actions to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide will need to be removed from the atmosphere if the world is to meet the Paris Agreement climate goals. The proliferation of net zero targets, and by extension the use of carbon dioxide...
by Helen Bunting | Oct 17, 2024
Support for carbon removals must not undermine efforts to slash emissions. To avoid this and to recognise the distinction between biogenic sequestration and permanent CDR, different targets and policies are necessary for emissions reduction, biogenic sequestration and...
by Helen Bunting | Oct 17, 2024
The European Climate Law, as currently written, requires greenhouse gas emissions to be balanced with carbon dioxide removals by 2050. It explicitly mandates the EU institutions and the member states to “prioritise swift and predictable emissions reductions and, at...
