Keiner et al. (2025): Seeking El Dorado: Iceland’s carbon dioxide removal service opportunities to meet global demand and a new lens on overnight transition cost
Dominik Keiner, Yousef Pourjamal, Siavash Khalili, Christian Breyer, IN: Global Environmental Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2025.11.016
Carbon dioxide removal is likely needed to reach the 1.5 °C and a more ambitious 1.0 °C target rebalancing the climate within planetary boundaries. Research on carbon dioxide removal is usually done either on global scale or for large regions. Dedicated energy system integration of a large-scale carbon dioxide removal industry sector into a national energy system is not yet state-of-the-art. This study closes this research gap for the case of Iceland, one of the most promising countries in the world to act as a carbon dioxide removal hub due to its geologically favourable conditions for in-situ mineralisation, and abundance of renewable energy sources including geothermal energy.