by Emily Cracknell | Sep 17, 2025
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be needed at scale in all scenarios that achieve the goal of the Paris agreement to limit warming to 1.5°C by 2050. To achieve its net-zero commitments, the UK needs to develop a CDR sector of at least 100 MtCO2 per year by 2050,...
by Emily Cracknell | Sep 17, 2025
Marine-based CDR (mCDR) has substantive technical potential to sequester CO2 at gigatonne scale. Some techniques also have co-benefits such as addressing ocean acidification, enhancing biodiversity as well as generating negative carbon building materials. The focus of...
by Emily Cracknell | Sep 17, 2025
This report collates discussions and findings from two engagements undertaken by CO2RE in St Ives, Cornwall in December 2024 and June 2025. The aim of the engagements was to learn from St Ives residents about their experience of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR)....
by Emily Cracknell | Sep 17, 2025
The UK has targets to deploy >100MtCO2 of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) by 2050, with interim technical targets of 5 MtCO2 and 23 MtCO2 by 2030 and 2035, respectively. In 2019, a number of policy initiatives were announced that have kick-started a nascent UK CDR...
by Emily Cracknell | Aug 5, 2025
This brief presents the results from the first national survey on public preferences for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) policy in the United Kingdom. To meet the UK’s national net zero target, the UK must scale CDR methods to remove 66 million tonnes of CO2 annually by...
