The Carbon Removal Readiness Assessments (CRRA) project launched by Carbon Gap is working on determining the CO2 removal prospects in five new European countries.
Earlier this year, the project wrapped Phase 1 of assessments, creating carbon dioxide removal (CDR) roadmaps for France and Norway. Currently in Phase 2, the project is now working on shaping roadmaps for Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain.
These countries were selected due to their theoretical CDR potential and/or the emerging nation-level conversations around these decarbonization technologies.
Under this initiative, Carbon Gap develops a pragmatic and data-driven approach for estimating the CDR potential in each country, considering factors such as the most suitable pathways and maximum deployment reach, and carving out targets aligned with the country’s domestic CDR capacity.
The assessments build on desk research, like map resources, feedstock, and policy frameworks, combining them with interviews with stakeholders like policymakers and industry leaders and holding panels with citizens where they can provide their input and concerns around CDR.
So far in Phase 2, the project has launched desk research across all five countries, and more than 15 stakeholder interviews have been completed in each one of them, with citizen panels wrapped up in Finland, Germany, Italy, and Poland.
Moving forward, the Carbon Removal Readiness Assessments project and national stakeholders will co-design roadmaps for Finland and Spain, expecting to identify actionable goals around CDR research, regulations, infrastructure needs, and incentive mechanisms.
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To that end, the initiative will hold a workshop on September 4 in Helsinki and another one in early October in Madrid (the date is yet to be determined), and Carbon Gap is extending an invitation to any interested party to join these events and provide input.
For countries not included in this project, Carbon Gap has also launched a free, open-access toolkit based on its own CRRA methodology that can be used to determine the national CDR scaling capacity and can be adjusted and built on to match specific country characteristics.
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