Results

Visions and Pathways for Carbon Dioxide Removal in the EU

Summary of key results and recommendations from NEGEM project

Science Policy Brief

This science-policy brief presents the current key findings of NEGEM, iIt provides science-based facts to help answer questions such as:

  • To what extent is Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) required to achieve climate neutrality?
  • At what scale is it feasible to implement CDR methods, given their technical, environmental, economic and socio-political aspects?
  • How to formulate policies and governance structures to optimize the deployment of CDR within the overall climate architecture?

It also provides key messages on the role of CDR for EU’s 2040 climate policy.

In June 2023 it was submitted to the European Commission, in response to the public consultation launched to start the process to establish a 2040 climate target for the EU, towards climate neutrality by 2050.

Deliverables

Publications

Responsible carbon dioxide removals and the EU's 2040 climate target

Kati Koponen, Johanna Braun, Selene Cobo Gutiérrez, Alice Evatt, Lars Golmen, Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez, Lorie Hamelin, Stuart Jenkins, Tiina Koljonen, 2024.

Sustainable financing of permanent CO2 disposal through a Carbon Takeback Obligation

Stuart Jenkins, Eli Mitchell-Larson, Stuart Haszeldine, Myles Allen, 2020.

The meaning of net zero and how to get it right

Sam Fankhauser, Stephen M. Smith, Myles Allen, et al., 2021.

Europe’s ‘green deal’ and carbon dioxide removal

Reiner, David M.; Hannula, Ilkka et al. , 2021 .

Variation in Population Structure and Standing Stocks of Kelp Along Multiple Environmental Gradients and Implications for Ecosystem Services

Gundersen, Hege; Rinde, Eli; Bekkby, Trine; Hancke, Kasper; Gitmark Janne K.; Christie, Hartvig, 2021.

Upstream decarbonization through a carbon takeback obligation: An affordable backstop climate policy

Jenkins, Stuart; Mitchell-Larson, Eli; Haszeldine, Stuart; Allen, Myles, 2021.

Net Zero:
Science, Origins, and Implications

Myles R. Allen,Pierre Friedlingstein et al.
Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2022

CO2 removal and 1.5 °C: what, when, where, and how?

Solene Chiquier, Mathilde Fajardy, Niall Mac Dowell, 2022.

A comparative analysis of the efficiency, timing, and permanence of CO2 removal pathways

Solene Chiquier, Piera Patrizio, Mai Bui, Nixon Sunnyab, Niall Mac Dowell, 2022.

Comparing approaches for carbon dioxide removal

Niall Mac Dowell, David M.Reiner, R. Stuart Haszeldine, 2022.

Potential of Land-Neutral Negative Emissions Through Biochar Sequestration

C. Werner, W. Lucht, D. Gerten and C. Kammann, 2022.

Human and planetary health implications of negative emissions technologies

Selene Cobo, Ángel Galán-Martín, Victor Tulus, Mark A. J. Huijbregts & Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez, 2022.

Comparing approaches for carbon dioxide removal

Niall Mac Dowell, David M. Reiner, R. Stuart Haszeldine, 2022.

A review of commercialisation mechanisms for carbon dioxide removal

Conor Hickey, Sam Fankhauser, Stephen M. Smith, Myles Allen, 2023.

Responsible carbon dioxide removals and the EU’s 2040 climate target

Kati Koponen et. al , 2024 (submitted to Environmental Research Letters)

Sustainable negative emission technologies in Europe: Evaluating scenarios to meet EU’s CO2 emission targets

Markkanen J. Koponen, K. 2024 (submitted to Environmental Research Letters)

DACCS

12/04/2024

Biochar

12/04/2024

BioCCS

12/04/2024

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