Fossil emissions should not be offset by planting trees. Why? Let's take a look at the carbon cycle. โป In the short carbon cycle (through living organisms) carbon is only stored for a few decades. In the long carbon cycle (volcanoes, weathering etc.) carbon can be stored for millennia. Removing carbon that was emitted from the long carbon cycle (i.e. fossil fuels) and storing it in the short carbon cycle (i.e. organisms) leads to an unbalanced carbon cycle. ๐ชจ If the emissions came from the geosphere (e.g. fossil emissions) they should be removed and returned to the geosphere through processes like enhanced rock weathering, DACCS, DOCCS, BECCS, etc. ๐ณ If the emissions come from the biosphere (e.g. land-use change, agricultural emissions) then they should be removed and returned to the biosphere through processes like reforestation, soil carbon, blue carbon etc. โ We call this the like-for-like principle and it is integral to creating effective carbon removal policies. #InfoFriday #carbonremoval
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๐ฟ Helping Europe become a world leader in deploying carbon removal. ๐ Belgium, France and the UK #CDRforEurope
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Carbon removals should only be used to balance hard-to-abate emissions. Yet currently there is no strict definition for hard-to-abate. As technologies evolve, some emissions will become easier to abate than others and emissions will need to be re-classified if they are to be balanced with carbon removal. Based on the most ambitious scenarios, countries will have varying emissions per sector by 2050๐ which further complicates the question of what constitutes hard-to-abate. โจ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐ง๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ค๐๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ. We take a deep-dive in how to strengthen net zero claims here ๐ https://lnkd.in/eZsrqsG9 #carbonremoval #greenclaims #netzero
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Y en Espaรฑa, quรฉ estรก pasando? Spain's current climate ambitions include a 90% cut in CO2 emissions based on 1990 levels. Nature-based carbon removal is seen as its main ticket for getting there, but other technologies such as bio-energy with carbon capture and storage and enhanced rock weathering may also play a role. Lรฉalo todo aqui ๐ https://lnkd.in/e7F5AMfr #trackertuesday #carbonremoval
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๐ฑ Soil carbon has an immense potential for #carbonremoval along with the many co-benefits involved in sustainable farming practices. To achieve a safe and just transition toward climate-friendly farming, any future policies must safeguard farmer autonomy and freedoms, as well as acknowledge the different stakeholders and their varying levels of responsibility and capacity to make significant changes. Doing so can help policymakers craft legislative frameworks thatย go beyond soil health thresholds to incentivise farmers to increase soil carbon stocks. ๐ More on what a safe, effective and just soil carbon governance looks like can be found here ๐ https://lnkd.in/e2ar6PbC #RecomMonday #soilcarbon #climateaction
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๐ก๏ธ Celcius, Farenheit, Euros or Dollars? We dipped our toes in the Atlantic waters and took the temperature of carbon removal (CDR) innovation funding on both banks. ๐ธ Below is an EU-USA comparison of current spending and estimated funding needs for research, development and innovation (RD&I) on CDR. The figure shows current volumes of RD&I funding disbursed to CDR in the EU and the USA (filled bars) compared to estimated requirements to address pending research gaps over 20 years. For more context, read Chapter 1 of our proposed CDR strategy for Europe: https://lnkd.in/eAJHeU_r And for more on EU-USA policy comparisons, head over to our Policy Tracker: https://lnkd.in/ehNvV655 #PolicyTracker #CDR #InfoFriday
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๐ค Imagine if the richest companies used their profits to finance carbon removal? It could lead to generating over โจ 27 billion USD โจ in climate finance yearly if just 141 high-profit companies spent 100 USD per ton they emit, representing a small percentage of profits. Instead of the producer-pays principle, we propose financing carbon removal in accordance with a company's "ability to pay", based on its profits per ton emitted, and the internal investment needed to reduce its own emissions. Unsurprisingly, those companies that emit the most can afford to pay the least for carbon removal. By looking at some of the largest companies' profits per tonne CO2 across a variety of sectors, we noticed that those companies with the highest profits and the lowest emissions were the most able to pay for carbon removal. Yet the ability to pay for carbon removal did not match their willingness to do so, creating a gap between ambition and capacity. ๐ ๐๐จ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ ๐๐ฉ, ๐ฐ๐ ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ก ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ. For a full read of our analysis, see here ๐ https://lnkd.in/eh5PZnQq #carbonremoval #climatefinance #cdr
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A tale of two summaries: with summer under way, we give you a summary of the some of the key #carbonremoval news last month. Included in that recap is Carbon Gap's unattributed summary of discussions co-held with PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research on shaping the role of CDR in the EU Green Deal and an overview of the State of CDR in Europe. ๐ We give you a full recap of July in our recent newsletter: https://lnkd.in/epee2Z27 ๐ Want to sign up? https://lnkd.in/e_GPWV_q Find more information on each news item: N: https://lnkd.in/e6DB_MNA E: https://lnkd.in/enbEdhUi W: https://lnkd.in/ek_XuhCd S: https://lnkd.in/dauWHZ9R and https://lnkd.in/emcnDFEU ๐ Shout out to European Climate Neutrality Observatory (ECNO), 1PointFive, The OpenAir Collective, Malin Dufour, Kenneth Mรถllersten, Lars Zetterberg, Benjamin Sovacool, Chad M. Baum, Livia Fritz, Ben Caldecott, Injy Johnstone for their contributions to CDR news this week!
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๐ Cyprus has yet to integrate carbon removal (CDR) in its plan to reach climate neutrality by 2050. Would you like to know more about the CDR policy situation on the island? ๐ Head over to our Policy Tracker entry: https://lnkd.in/en_NR9vi #TrackerTuesday #CDR #Cyprus
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To reach its climate goals, the EU will need to implement deployment incentives to boost the availability of carbon removal. For today's #RecomMonday, we have a simple recipe the EU can use ๐ด ๐ฅ Gather the ingredients necessary to craft and launch a pilot procurement programme ๐ฅ Once the programme has successfully simmered, mix in public and private funding and bring to a boil ๐ฒ Add a Carbon Clearing-house to the medley and watch as CDR scales up! To read our full recommendations, see here: https://lnkd.in/eAJHeU_r #carbonremoval #deploymentincentives
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๐ฃ๏ธ Veien til netto nullutslipp er lang, men vi har et kart! I sommer gjennomfรธrte vi, med bidrag fra Carbon Limits AS og Perspectives Climate Group, en spรธrreundersรธkelse blant interessenter innen karbonfjerning (vanligvis forkortet CDR) for รฅ finne ut hvordan vi konkret kan stรธtte utrullingen av CDR i Norge. ๐บ๏ธ Sjekk ut hele rapporten og veikartet her: https://lnkd.in/eyEpx-Yh #CDR #Norway #PolicyThursday
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