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Key Takeaways From COP28 UAE

by Petya Trendafilova on carbonherald.com, December 15, 2023

„Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) took center stage at discussions during COP28. It can help support countries in bridging the gap between current emission reduction commitments and what is needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C. To fulfill its potential, it should be accelerated massively by 2030. According to CDR.fyi, durable CDR credits would need to scale almost 1,000 times to reach 40 million tons in 2030. The end goal is for them to be scaled to a gigaton’s annual capacity to support progress towards eliminating global emissions. „

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Direct air capture: An expensive, dangerous distraction from real climate solutions

by Kurt Zenz House, Josh Goldman, Charles F. Harvey on thebulletin, December 15, 2023

„All year, the zeitgeist has been building toward technologies that separate carbon dioxide from air, referred to as direct air capture (DAC). In September, the United States Department of Energy awarded Occidental Petroleum a $600 million grant to build a DAC machine. As scientists and entrepreneurs who’ve dedicated our careers to help solve global warming, you might expect us to be happy. We are not.“

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A Transformative Carbon Sink in the Ocean?

by Doug Reusch, Kayleigh Brisard, Gil Hamilton, Carson Theriault on eos.org, December 12, 2023

„Water-rock reactions in some hydrothermal systems produce both hydrogen, which could be tapped for clean energy, and alkaline solutions that could help draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide.“

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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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