Europe’s carbon dioxide removal advocate and NGO Carbon Gap is coordinating a project named Carbon Removal Readiness Assessments, aimed at identifying the needs and strengths of different countries for developing CDR on a national scale.
The CDR Initiative at RMI has backed Carbon Gap on this initiative, with the two organizations now calling on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) suppliers to take part in the project, providing information on the requirements needed to perform their carbon removal activities.
Envisioned to gather information through a bottom-up method, the Carbon Removal Readiness Assessments project was introduced as an alternative to many other assessments that look into CDR scenarios on a global level.
Guided by these global climate agendas, countries are often left with little CDR guidelines that correspond to the national strengths and resources for carbon removal deployment.
In this situation, Carbon Gap observed three possible scenarios for national-level action.
Countries opt in to quantify their excess emission levels at the point of net-zero, assuming they will deploy the equivalent in CDR, or they translate the globally set CDR targets into what they see as a fair contribution on their end (driven by factors like the ability to pay or the historic responsibility of the country.)
Another common move is the decision of countries to base their activity on well-established CDR methods, like enhancing natural sinks.
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To present a more specific, country-oriented CDR development pathway, Carbon Gap hopes to be able to accumulate enough information that would be made publicly available, painting a clear picture of what the country needs and possesses for reaching optimal carbon removal activity.
During Phase 1 of this project, which wrapped in March 2024, Carbon Gap released CDR roadmaps for France and Norway, with another one on the United Arab Emirates expected to be released soon.
During project Phase 2, the organization aims to release roadmaps for five more countries in Europe: Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain.
CDR suppliers interested in providing their feedback can do so by April 4th, 2025.
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