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Some nations want to remove more pollution than they produce. That will take giving nature a boost

by David Keyton on apnews.com, December 11, 2023

„As countries at the COP28 climate talks are wrangling over ways to lower their greenhouse gas emissions, a Danish-led group of countries has decided to set the ultimate goal: to remove more carbon dioxide, the main source of global warming, from the atmosphere than they emit. The Group of Negative Emitters was launched Sunday in Dubai by Denmark, Finland and Panama, and aims to reach that goal by slashing emissions, protecting and expanding forests, and investing in new technologies. Panama has already reached the goal with its vast forests that act as a huge carbon sink. Finland and Denmark hope to achieve this by 2035 and 2045, respectively.“

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COP27: Paving the way for the “removals COP”

by Eve Tamme, Paul Zakkour on evetamme.com, November 2023

„Let’s explore how carbon removal featured at COP27, the relevant developments in climate change negotiations, and what to watch out for through 2023 and up to COP28. The Egyptian Presidency called COP27 the “African COP” and the “implementation COP”.  The meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh could, however, also have adopted the strapline of the “removals COP”, given the levels of activity on the subject across the two-week conference. The dedicated carbon removal community presence was probably the highest ever seen at a COP; more than 70 side events relating to carbon removal were listed on a virtual platform established by the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions Team, Carbon Gap, Open Air Collective, Rethinking Removals, Carbon Business Council and DAC Coalition.“

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EU Parliament Approves The Carbon Removal Certification Framework And Net Zero Industry Act

by Petya Trendafilova, carbonherald.com, November 22, 2023

„The European Parliament voted on November 21st in a plenary session on long-awaited and debated climate policies. The Parliament has approved the Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) and the Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA), demonstrating its support for scaling up carbon dioxide removal (CDR) capacity in the EU – part of the bloc’s strategy in reaching climate neutrality by 2050.“

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How COP28 can help accelerate research around the ocean’s carbon removal potential

Sam Zak, Brad Ack, World Economic Forum, weforum.org, Nov 17

  • „The ocean has great potential for carbon dioxide removal, yet much more investment is required to determine how that potential can be harnessed.
  • Accelerated research is needed to answer key questions about the viability, scalability and safety of the various ocean carbon dioxide removal approaches.
  • COP28 represents an important opportunity to advance global discussions of a scaled and accelerated ocean carbon dioxide removal research and development agenda.“

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Yara invests in CCS in Sluiskil and signs binding CO2 transport and storage agreement with Northern Lights – the world’s first cross-border CCS-agreement in operation

yara.com; November 20, 2023

„Oslo, 20 November 2023: Yara International, a leading global ammonia player, and Northern Lights, a CO2 transport and storage supplier, sign a binding commercial agreement, enabling the first cross-border transportation and storage of CO2. Yara aims to reduce its annual CO2-emissions by 800,000 tons from the ammonia production at Yara Sluiskil. The CO2 will be liquefied and shipped by Northern Lights from the Netherlands to permanent storage on the Norwegian continental shelf, 2.6 kilometres under the seabed.“

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Is ocean iron fertilization back from the dead as a CO₂ removal tool?

by Jeremy Hance, Conversation News, November 14, 2023

„In 2009, a controversial scientific experiment dumped 6 metric tons of dissolved iron into the Southern Ocean to see if it would trigger a massive bloom of phytoplankton in iron-deficient waters. In one way, the experiment succeeded: The scientists produced a phytoplankton bloom. However, they didn’t get what they were really after: Proof that such a scheme could lead to large-scale carbon dioxide sequestration. You see, when phytoplankton die, they sometimes sink to the bottom of the sea — a phenomenon known as marine snow — carrying the carbon dioxide they absorbed during photosynthesis with them to be sequestered in the seabed for decades to millennia. In 2009, the vast majority of the experimental bloom was consumed by zooplankton near the surface and failed to reach the ocean floor. Since then, except for an even more controversial attempt by a for-profit company in 2012 in Canadian waters, there have been no large-scale experiments of ocean iron fertilization as a potential tool to counteract climate change.“

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New technology could capture carbon and water out of thin air

by Michelle Ma, Bloomberg on businessmirror.com, November 12, 2023

„A lightly trafficked stretch of road near Bakersfield, California may seem an odd place to try to solve two environmental crises at once. But there, sandwiched between a decommissioned solar thermal project and an almond farm, a company is testing a machine that can suck carbon dioxide and water out of the air. That machine is the first attempt by Avnos, a Los Angeles-based startup, to prove it can do what it calls hybrid direct air capture (DAC). Its technique would clean the air of CO2 and capture water that can be used in an era of worsening drought. It’s a moonshot bet on an already moonshot technology.“

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Scaling carbon capture and carbon removals does not mean business-as-usual for the fossil fuel industry

by Leonardo Buizza, Energy Transition Commission, November 2023

„As COP28 draws near, increasing attention is being paid to a crucial topic: the future potential and role for carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), and carbon dioxide removals (CDR). This year has seen scandals bloom around carbon offsets, increasing talk of “net-zero barrels” of oil, and the rise of the idea that carbon capture will allow the fossil fuel industry to maintain business-as-usual. Opposing arguments have emerged that the potential of both CCUS and CDR is either incredibly limited, or near limitless. Given the link to fossil fuel use and emissions of carbon dioxide, this leads to a very wide, almost incredible range of scenarios for future demand for fossil fuels – as we’ve highlighted in the chart below.“

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