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Will the EU & UK ETS decarbonize industry and drive demand for CDR?
Tax payers may need to spend more than we are preparing for.
 • Robert Höglund
Carbon removal is mitigation, stop treating it as a last resort
If you restrict removal use for "unavoidable" emissions, you end up using it for nothing. We need to treat CDR as any other mitigation solution, and let…
 • Robert Höglund
Where policy shuts out CDR - and how to change it
Current policy blocks CDR from being part of shipping and aviation in ways that are not widely understood. But there are solutions.
 • Robert Höglund
Allow Near-term Net Zero
Allowing companies to reach near-term net zero targets matters more for CDR than anything else standards can come up with.
 • Robert Höglund
What role will CDR play for shipping?
Cost is one thing, rules are another
 • Robert Höglund
CDR has three jobs, only one needs permanence
Arguments over CDR permanence miss the point when net zero, legacy emissions, and interim responsibility are conflated
 • Robert Höglund
What needs to change in the SBTi Net Zero Standard 2.0 to scale carbon removal
The just-published draft standard is unlikely to significantly increase demand for CDR. Crucially, Interim CDR targets must include the total CDR needs…
 • Robert Höglund
Marginal Carbon
Marginal Carbon
Explorations of carbon removal, covering the market, policy, methods, and system-level thinking. By Robert Höglund.
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