Report: The case for a UK Office for Carbon Removal
by James Elliott, Green Alliance, June 22, 2023
In this report the challenges associated with scaling up the Greenhouse gas removal industry and the new governance arrangements needed to ensure it is done sustainably are explored. The report argues that the government must take a more active role in shaping and regulating the growth of the sector. Amongst other requirements, new frameworks need to set out which emissions are genuinely residual and can be offset, and which simply need to be reduced or avoided. Without this there is a high chance net zero will be missed. The report proposes a new government Office for Carbon Removal to oversee the growth of Greenhouse gas removal.