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Capturing the First Gigaton of CDR: Milestones and Mistakes to Avoid

Reaching one gigaton of annual carbon dioxide removal (CDR) requires 6 key milestones: robust verification standards, technology portfolio diversity, physical infrastructure buildout, sustained financing, streamlined permitting with community engagement, and cost reductions. CDR must avoid mistakes from adjacent industries including over-subsidizing marginal projects, ignoring environmental justice, and letting perfect be the enemy of good. This … Read more

Beyond pilots: why the next gigaton of CDR will be captured in the Global South

The carbon removal industry has spent the better part of a decade proving concepts in expensive Northern facilities. Direct air capture plants in Iceland, biochar trials in California, enhanced weathering experiments across European farmland, all informative, trailblazing and very much needed. But the path to gigaton-scale deployment does not run through the same geographies that … Read more